The Waterloo medal awarded to Private Joseph Jackson, 1st or Royal Dragoons, who was wounded by a sabre in the left side and bayonet in the left hand

Waterloo 1815 (Joseph Jackson, 1st or Royal Dragoons.) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, nearly very fine £1,800-£2,200

Joseph Jackson was born in the Parish of Aldingham, near Ulveston, Lancaster, and enlisted into the 1st or Royal Dragoons at Preston on 25 December 1799, aged 24, a cordwainer by trade. He ‘served 5 years in the Peninsula and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo by a sabre in the left side and bayonet in the left hand & is recommended for the Bounty of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham’. He was consequently discharged at Dublin on 14 November 1818, and duly admitted to an out-pension at Kilmainham. On 18 November 1819, he enlisted into the 1st Royal Regiment of Veterans at Chatham, Kent, aged 44, and continued in that regiment until it was disbanded on 26 June 1821.

Sold with copied discharge papers.