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№ 1187

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12 December 2013

Hammer Price:
£1,850

Sergeant John Keating, 28th Foot

Waterloo 1815 (Serj. John Keating, 28th Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999.

John Keating was born at Clonmel, County Tipperary, and enlisted into the 28th Foot on 11 May 1808, and fought in Captain Irving’s Company at the battle of Waterloo. He died on 4 January 1821, whilst the regiment was stationed at Corfu.

Sold with copied muster rolls.