File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Wellington Museum, Edward Stables, tombstone tablet.jpg

English: Tablet recovered in 1990 from the tomb of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Stables (tomb fallen into oblivion at that time), now preserved by the Wellington Museum and affixed in the passageway linking the Chaussée de Bruxelles to the backyard of the Museum – (coordinates : 50.71762, 4.39822).

Tarlier & Wauters published Lieutenant Colonel Stables tomb in 1864 : (...) un beau sarcophage en pierre bleue, orné aux quatre faces de tablettes de marbre blanc. Aux angles sont quatre piliers en pierre bleue rattachés par des barres de fer. Sur la face nord, dont la tablette est brisée, on lit les lignes suivantes, que nous avons complétées par conjecture :

[Ben]eath this stone lies the [Body of]
[lieutenant]-colonel Edward [Stables]
[of Great Ho]rmeadbury in the [county of Herts.]
[He served] in the contine[ntal Wars]
[under Sir John M]oore and the Du[ke of Wellington,]
[and was killed on the 18]^th of June 1815 whil[st commanding a Battalion]
[of Grenadier Guards] in the battle of [Waterloo]
[at the close of] that mem[orable Day.]
[He fell dist]ingui[shed]
[By his Soldiers ble]st in his [Comrades tears.]
[MDCCCXV]

Tarlier & Wauters pursue by describing the southern tablet (shown), whose text is integrally preserved.