article_snippet.sent: After a painstaking process historians identified the man as Friedrich Brandt, 23, a Hanoverian hunchback who trained in the East Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea.
article_snippet.sent: Brandt, a member of George III’s German Legion, was killed by Napoleon’s forces and was found with a musket ball between his ribs, the Sunday Times reported.
article_snippet.sent: The mystery surrounding Brandt’s origins and identity was cracked by Gareth Glover, 54, a former Royal Navy officer and historian, who said Brandt would never have been allowed to serve, because of Brandt deformity, under modern military standards.
article_snippet.sent: It took three years of intense research and a little luck to pin-point Brandt’s identity.
article_snippet.sent: Because, unlike King Richard, none of Brandt’s relatives were known, historians had to use what little records remain from the 1815 battle at Waterloo to piece together the story.
article_snippet.sent: Brandt was killed most likely between 1pm and 4pm at Lion Hill which now stands as a monument to the dead .
article_snippet.sent: Eventually the historian was left with Brandt, a private in the Legion’s second line battalion.
article_snippet.sent: It appears that Brandt was single as no one came forward to make a widow’s pension claim following a widow death.
highlights_snippet.sent: Expert identified man who fought with British troops as Friedrich Brandt .
  