The Waterloo Medal awarded to Corporal J. Green, 1st Royal Dragoons, who was wounded in the breast at Waterloo, the ball being extracted 16 months later

Waterloo 1815 (Corporal John Green, 1st or Royal Dragoons.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, and with top silver riband bar, the edge neatly plugged at 6 o’clock, some pitting and polished, therefore better than good fine £2,400-£2,800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013.

John Green was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 15 September 1791 and enlisted for the 1st Dragoons at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on his 15th birthday. He served five years in Spain and Portugal, and was present at the battles of Fuentes d’Onor, Vittoria, and Toulouse. He was promoted to Corporal on 25 April 1815, and served in Captain Henry Carden’s No. 3 Troop with the 1st Dragoons, as part of the Union Brigade, at the battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded ‘with a musket ball through left breast, extracted 16 months after at Ipswich’. He was promoted Sergeant on 26 November 1820, but reduced to Private in October 1829. He became a Corporal once more in November 1831 and was promoted to Sergeant again in February 1838. He was finally discharged on 25 June 1838, after 33 years and 284 days’ service. He was still alive in 1848, and received a three-clasp Military General Service Medal.

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