Captain Kelly of the Life Guards at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Lithograph by J Atkinson, published by R Ackermann's Lithography, 1 June 1817. From a series of sixteen lithographs, 'incidents of British bravery during the late campaigns on the continent. Graphically illustrated in a series of drawings on stone'.

Captain Edward Kelly strikes out at a cuirassier officer at Waterloo, on the 18 June 1815. In a letter in the National Army Museum's collection, Kelly mentions removing the epaulettes of a Colonel of the French 1st Cuirassiers who he killed during the battle.

The caption reads, ''Among the numerous instances of bravery recorded of the heroes of Waterloo the conduct of Captn Kelly of the Life Guards deserves particular notice, in leading a charge of the heavy Brigade against a body of Cuirassiers he encountered with the commanding officer whom after a severe contest he deprived of life in spite of his defensive armour giving a striking proof of its uselessness against superior prowess and skill'.