SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 210


WATERLOO 1815 (.ames Herbert, Drummer, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) with later silver clip and steel ring suspension, first letter of Christian name obscured by suspension clip, ‘Drummer’ re-engraved, edge bruising, very fine


£700-900 Provenance: Clive Nowell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.


James Herbert was born in Gibraltar in 1795 and attested for the 1st Foot Guards in London on 11 March 1808. Appointed a Drummer in the first half of 1809, he served with the Regiment in the Peninsula, and was present at the Battles of Barrosa, Nivelle, and Nive (entitled to a Military General Service Medal with 3 clasps). Posted to the 3rd Battalion, he served in Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James Stanhope’s Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18 June 1815- at the Battle of Waterloo the Battalion spent the day positioned on top of the ridge of Mont St. Jean under fire. When the Imperial Guard attacked it was the 1st Foot Guards that bore the weight of the attack. The Imperial Guard reached the crest of the allied position, where Maitland’s Guards rose and delivered volley after volley into the ranks of the French who were driven back, the battle being as good as won. For their gallantry that day the 1st Foot Guards were granted the title of Grenadier Guards. Herbert reverted to the rank of Private in the latter half of 1817, and was discharged as a ‘casualty’ on 22 December 1825.


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WATERLOO 1815 (Edw. Wharton, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards.) fitted with original? steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine


£3000-3600


Edward Wharton enlisted into the 2nd Battalion of the Third Foot Guards on 18 December 1813, whilst ‘on service’. The battalion had embarked at London for Holland in that same month as part of Sit Thomas Graham’s force and were in action against the French at Bergen-op-Zoom in March 1814. Following Napoleon’s abdication the regiment moved to Brussels, where it remained until his escape from exile, taking part in the Waterloo campaign, fighting at Quatre Bras on 16 June and at Waterloo two days later.


Wharton was a member of Lieutenant-Colonel William Master’s Light Company and was thus a Hougoumont defender, in company with the light companies of the First Foot Guards and the Coldstream Guards, the whole being under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell of the Coldstreamers. The 2/3rd Foot Guards, in Lieutenant-Colonel Master’s absence, was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Dashwood at both Quatre Bras and Waterloo.


At Waterloo these three light companies were allotted the inside defence of the chateau of Hougoumont. Throughout the day the defenders frustrated the attacks by more than 30,000 Frenchmen who failed to take the position, moving Wellington to record in his despatch of the next day that the occupation of the chateau ‘was maintained throughout with the utmost gallantry by those brave troops notwithstanding the repeated efforts of large bodies of the enemy to obtain possession of it.’


Specifically, Sergeants MacGreggor and Aston of the 3rd Foot Guards helped to close the gates, Captain Evelyn was wounded, and Privates Brooker, Clay (who wrote a narrative of these events) and Gann are recorded in various histories. Wharton returned to London with the battalion in January 1816, but is not found on any muster rolls after 24 June 1816. On those where he is named, he is clearly shown as a ‘Waterloo man’ and confirmed on the roll as part of Lieutenant-Colonel Master’s Company.


Sold with copied medal roll, full muster search and copied extracts from muster rolls, together with A Narrative of the Battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo; With the Defence of Hougoumont, by Matthew Clay (2006 edition).


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WATERLOO 1815 (Corp. Jeremiah Sullivan, 1st Batt. 27th Reg. Foot.) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine and a rare casualty for Maida 1806


£2400-3000


Jeremiah Sillivan was born at Bantry, County Cork, and enlisted at Cork for unlimited service in the 27th Foot on 18 May 1798. He was discharged to Pension on 24 May 1817, due to age and length of service. His conduct is stated to have been ‘Remarkably Good, and wounded at the Battle of Maida on 4 July 1808’. His total service amounted to 21 years 6 month, including 2 years for Waterloo. Sold with copied discharge papers and Pension Admission Register.


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