Waterloo 1815 (Robert Smalley, 2nd Batt, 73rd Reg. Foot.) with original steel clip, later small ring suspension, edge bruising and worn in parts, otherwise nearly very fine £1800-2200

Robert Smalley was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, and attested for the 73rd Foot on 2 June 1813. He was promoted Corporal on 3 June 1814, but reduced back to Private on 25 March 1815. He served in Captain John Garland’s No. 2 Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18 June 1815, and was discharged on 29 March 1816, ‘in consequence of a wound of the left arm received at Waterloo’, after 4 years and 301 days’ service.

Sold with the following two books:
- The Three Serjeants, or Phases of the Soldier’s Life, being recollections of Military Service in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, India, and the Crimea, by Morris, Thomas; Morris, William; and Morris, William, Jun., published by Effingham Wilson, London, 1858, 302pp, bound in cloth covers
- The 2/73rd at Waterloo, by Lagden, Alan; and Sly, John, privately published, 1988, 236pp, with plates, the inside inscribed ‘with very best wishes, Alan Lagden’, with dust jacket