Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (Lt. Ja. Stewart Cargil, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine
£3500-4000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 43rd/52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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James Stewart Cargill was born at Dunkeld, Perthshire, in 1794 and appointed Ensign in the 52nd Foot on 23 June 1812, aged 18. He was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1813, and placed on half pay on 25 July 1816. He submitted a statement of services, dated Monte Video, January 8th, 1830, which notes that during the last five years he had been generally resident ‘in the Brazils and other parts of S. America’. He had married at Perth on 15 June 1823, Helen Simpson, and they had a daughter Louisa Stewart, born in April 1824. Lieutenant Cargill died at Perth in 1833.