Orders, Decorations and Medals

42nd Foot Medal 1819, by Parkes, obv. in the upper section - St. Andrew with his cross, legend above, ‘Nemo me Impune Lacessit’, in the lower - soldiers marching through mountainous country; rev. winged figure of Fame above the battle honours, ‘Corunna, Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula’, in a rectangle below, ‘42 R.H.Rt.’ (Serj. Jn. Christy), 32mm., silver, with hinged silver straight bar suspension, Ref. Balmer R.336a, Tancred p.332, H.I. p.259, Payne p.204, good very fine £250-300

A Serjeant John Christie (sic) is listed in the published Waterloo Medal roll as serving in Captain Donald McDonald’s Company, 42nd Foot.