Robert Westall's children's book The Watch House is set in Tynemouth. The curator talks of the Watch House and its intriguing contents, mentioning that one of the tenants of the graveyard is Corporal Alexander Rollo (1774-1856) of the Royal Artillery:

'You must remember Alexander Rollo?'
Er, no.'
'He held the lantern at the burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna - that's in Spain. Sir John Moore and Alexander Rollo was fighting Napoleon. Surely you've learned the poem in school?'
'Er, no.'
'I don't knaa what they teach bairns these days.' The man took a stance, left-hand thumb in waistcoat pocket, right hand extended:

Not a sound was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corpse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning,
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light
And the lanthorn dimly burning.

The curator paused and said, 'That was the lantern that Alexander Rollo was holding, see?'