SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
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WATERLOO 1815 (Corp. Rob. Thompson, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.)
fitted with replacement ring and silver bar suspension, overall heavy
contact wear, polished and worn £3000-3500
Robert Thompson was born at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, in about 1793, and enlisted
at Glasgow for the 2nd Dragoons on 1 November 1803, receiving a levy
payment of £4-9-0d. He was promoted to Corporal on 25 April 1815 and was
present at Waterloo in Captain Fenton’s No 6 Troop, one of the troops that
suffered most heavily at Waterloo. Thompson was reduced in rank once more to
Private on 8 November 1815 and served a further eleven years until his discharge
to pension at Edinburgh Castle on 30 October 1826, being unfit for further
service. Sold with copy discharge papers and full muster details.
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WATERLOO 1815 (James Clark, Gren. Guards, 3rd Batt.) fitted with
replacement silver clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and overall
contact wear, therefore fine £800-1000
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WATERLOO 1815 (William Adams, 1st Batt. 4th Reg. Foot) fitted with
original steel clip and ring suspension, the clip loose, minor edge
bruising and contact marks, otherwise a pleasing very fine £1000-1200
William Adams first appears in the musters on 15 March 1814, and was
discharged on 25 October 1816. Sold with relevant copy muster rolls.
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The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Snodgrass,
who served with the 52nd Foot in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, and
was Military Secretary to Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell
during the whole of the campaigns of 1824-26 in Ava, of which he
subsequently published an important narrative
WATERLOO 1815 (Lieut. Jno. Ja. Snodgrass, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) fitted
with steel clip and silver bar suspension, contact marks, otherwise very
fine and better £5000-6000
John James Snodgrass entered the service as an Ensign in the 52nd Foot on 9
March 1812, becoming Lieutenant in April 1813. He served in the Peninsula,
France and Flanders with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Foot, from June 1812 to the end
of the war, including the battles and affairs of San Munos, Vittoria, the Pyrenees,
Vera, the Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Tarbes, Toulouse and Waterloo.
Promoted to Captain in December 1825, he became Major in the following year
and served as Military Secretary to Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell,
commanding the forces, during the whole of the campaigns of 1824-26 in
Burma, and as Political Agent in Ava. His Narrative of the Burmese War,
Detailing the Operations of Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell’s Army, from
Its landing at Rangoon in May 1824, to the conclusion of a Treaty of Peace at
Yandaboo, in February 1826, was published by John Murray, London, in 1827.
Snodgrass was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1826, and married, in March 1829, Maria Macdonald, eldest daughter of
General Sir Archibald Campbell, G.C.B. He became Major 94th Foot in August 1830, was placed on half-pay in June 1833, and was
appointed Deputy Quarter-Master General to the troops in Nova Scotia and its dependencies from September 1834 until his death,
which occurred at Halifax, N.S., on 14 January 1841. For the medals awarded to his son, Archibald Campbell Snodgrass, see Lot xxx.
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