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SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 67


WATERLOO 1815 (Lieut. J. Nicholson, 3rd Batt. 14th Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension and silver ribbon buckle, nearly extremely fine


£3500-4000


John Nicholson was christened at Wraby, Lincolnshire, on 21 October 1791. He joined the Hertfordshire Militia as an Ensign on 4 December 1812, and was appointed Ensign, from the Hertfordshire Militia, in the 14th Foot on 25 December 1813, having provided 30 volunteers to the 14th Foot from his Militia. Promoted to Lieutenant in April 1815, he fought with the 14th at the battle of Waterloo and also at the taking of Cambray, and was placed on half-pay in March 1816. He was commissioned Ensign (late Lieutenant half-pay 14th Foot) in the East York Regiment of Militia on 2 June 1855, was subsequently appointed acting Quartermaster and was still serving in this position until at least 1864.


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WATERLOO 1815 (David Cameron, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine


£3000-3500


David Cameron, a Labourer from Banff, enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 92nd Highlanders, on 11 June 1807. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, along with several others, in June 1809, to bring it back up to strength after the Corunna campaign. The Muster lists show him to be the only Cameron with the Christian name of David, and list him as being wounded at Vittoria where he served in Campbell’s No. 2 Company. He was left at Vittoria, recovering from his wounds, until February 1814 and rejoined the 92nd in France the following month. At Waterloo he served in Captain Peter Wilkie’s No. 10 Company and was again wounded, being ‘at Brussels - wounded’ in the musters of June to September 1815. He left hospital and rejoined his regiment towards the end of October. Early in 1819 he sailed for Jamaica in the transport Nautilus, and died there on 14 September 1819, when the regiment was decimated by yellow fever.


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WATERLOO 1815 (Cornet John Fenn, Royal Waggon Train) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising and light contact marks, otherwise better then very fine


£2500-3000


John Fenn was born circa 1790. He volunteered for the 4th Battalion Royal Scots from the Lanark Militia on 15 December 1808 and was promoted directly to Sergeant shortly afterwards. Fenn was sent on ‘command’ to the Military College at Sandhurst in May 1813 as a Staff Sergeant and in January 1814 was recommended for a commission in the following terms:


‘In consequence of a communication from Major-General Hamilton relative to the appointment of Staff Serjeant Fenn of the Royal Military College to a Cornetcy in the Royal Waggon Train, I have the honour to acquaint you that Serjeant Fenn’s conduct since he has been at the College, has been such that it will give me satisfaction to see his former merits in the Service rewarded’.


Fenn was duly commissioned a Cornet in the Royal Waggon Train on 4 May 1815, and served with this regiment at the battle of Waterloo, the most junior of the twelve officers present. He retired as a Lieutenant on Half-Pay on 25 December 1818 and died in about 1842. Sold with copied roll extracts and other research.


70 nearly very fine 71


Sold on behalf of the Marie Curie Trust. WATERLOO 1815, naming erased, fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension, some contact marks,


£300-400


ARMY OF INDIA 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Kirkee and Poona (J. A. Hay, Eur. Regt.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, dark toned, a few minor nicks, otherwise good very fine and scarce


£2500-3000 Ex Payne Collection 1911 and Loxley Collection 1949.


Confirmed on roll, one of only 88 clasps for Kirkee and Poona to Euorpean recipients.


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