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Thomas SandsOn the evening of the battle of waterloo

Thomas Sands was a Permanent Sergeant in the Sheffield Squadron of the 1st West York Yeomanry Cavalry when he died in 1850. As a career soldier he served 22 years in this regiment and also 24 years in the King's Dragoon Guards and distinguished himself at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 where the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon.

Thomas Sands