Liam's brother: re "Plains of Waterloo".

I am interested in your comments about this (these) song[s]. I am doing some research on this and came across the old and not so old thread. I am trying of find a tune for a song that is likely called Plains of Waterloo that was written down, ie collected, remembered, recorded, whatever, in B.C. in May of 1877. What was the life span of Abbott?

The first verse, which sort of fits the "Waterloo" midi in the mudcat is:

On the 16th day of June my boys in Flanders where we lay,

Our Bugels did alarm us Belgiums just at the break of day,

Our Royal British Brunswickers and Hanovarians to

Brussels left that morning for the Plains of Waterloo.

In the mudcat the "plains of Waterloo II has the same repeating line, but the words are not the same.

Any ides from anyone, and what tune might it fit to.

Richard Wright