Waterloo 1815 (Francis Powell, 2nd Batt. 44th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and later ring suspension, light contact marks and slightly polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1600-1800

Francis Powell served in Captain Craig’s No. 3 Company at Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He was enlisted into the 44th Foot at Maidstone on 11 June 1813 and went with the regiment to the continent. The musters for April 1814 show him to be a prisoner of war, clearly taken at the ill-fated assault on Bergen-op-Zoom in Holland the previous month. When the 2nd Battalion was disbanded in February 1816 Powell was transferred to the 1st Battalion, and in June 1822 embarked on the Warren Hastings for service in India. Arriving there on 6 October he then served in Captain William McLean’s Company at Fort William, Dinapore, Berhampore and the Arracan through 1823-25, until he died in hospital on 6 July 1825, cause unknown but the previous two months had seen several actions in which the 44th sustained casualties. Sold with muster details and other research.