Lot Archive

Lot

№ 794

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£2,300

Pair: Gunner Samuel Hammersley, Royal Horse Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (S. Hammersley, R.H. Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (Sam. Hammersley, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery) fitted with steel clip and replacement silver bar suspension, steel clip re-fixed, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better (2) £1600-1800

Gunner Samuel Hammersley served in Sir Robert Gardiner’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery. ‘His Troop was most severely pressed in covering the left of the army on the retreat from Quatre Bras on the 17th, and took part in the great battle of the 18th June.’