Am I mis-remembering?

[fsn]

I clearly remember (and not in a Sharpe book) reading of an officer in the Rifle who was shot in the neck during the Peninsula war. This caused his neck to be permanently turned to the left.

At Waterloo, he was hit in the neck again, but this time on the other side, and his neck was straightened.

I've carried this story around for years, and years, but can't find the original source.

I've used it on several occasions as an illustration of probability and as a damnation of such such terms as "at risk". [As an aside I was in a meeting with a very nice Caledonian gentleman, and used this story to try and stop a project trying to identify young people "at risk" of various things. My North British companion stirred in his chair and intoned "the only ones of us not at risk of becoming alcoholics, are those of us who already are".]   

So, am I mis-remembering? If not, where on Earth did I get this tale?

[GordonY]

Not from Sharpy, I would have remembered that.

[Luddite]

Wasn't that with eyes in a Men in Black movie?

[Hertsblue]

Don't recall the story and I'm sure Kincaid, Harris or Surtees would have mentioned it somewhere.