Waterloo 1815 (Daniel Wilmott, 2nd Batt. 73rd Reg. Foot.) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £2000-2600
Provenance: Sotheby, May 1890; Needes Collection, June 1906; Oakley Collection, Glendining’s, July 1953.
Daniel Wilmott enlisted into the 73rd Foot on 6 Ma 1811. He served at Waterloo in Captain Lynch’s No. 1 Company and was wounded in action, spending 67 days in hospital at Brussels before returning to England on 31 August 1815. He was promoted to Corporal on 25 October 1816, and was discharged on 3 May 1817, without pension despite having been wounded.
Sold with copied pay list extracts and other research.
788
Ghuznee 1839 (Private William Smith 16th Lancers) neatly engraved in upright serif capitals in reverse centre and lower edge, original suspension, good very fine
£500-£600
789
Cabul 1842 (* No. 1238. Sergt. William Russell HMs. 9th. Regt. *) Regimentally engraved naming, fitted with later scroll suspension with silver riband slide and top silver riband bar, contact marks, nearly very fine
£340-£380
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