Waterloo 1815 (Trp. Serj. Maj. J. Hervey, 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and heavy wear to obverse and reverse though naming perfectly legible, fine only £1200-1500

James Hervey was born in the Parish of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1781 and enlisted for the 15th Light Dragoons at Hertford on 18 September 1801, aged 20. He fought as one of the six Troop Sergeant Majors in his regiment at Waterloo in 1815 and was discharged at York on 22 August 1821, in consequence of ‘a reduction in the establishment and diseased kidneys which he has laboured under for two years, contracted in the service which incapacitates him from further service in the cavalry.’

Sold with copy discharge papers and other research including an article published in Medal News which features him.