Orders, Decorations and Medals (25 & 26 June 2008): Lot 15

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An Important Collection of Medals for the Maori Wars, 1845-1866
An Extensive Collection of Medals for Long and Meritorious Service
The Orders and Decorations of General Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, G.C.H., K.C.
A Collection of Medals for the Ashanti 1895-96 Expedition
A Series of Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. Awards to the British South Africa Police
Polar Awards from the Collection of Glenn M Stein, F.R.G.S.
A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy
A Collection of East and West Africa Medals to the Royal Navy
A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment

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26 June 2008

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Waterloo 1815 (Joseph Bilson, 1st or Royal Dragoons) original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising, scratches to obverse and edge, good fine £1000-1400

Private Joseph Bilson served in Captain Henry Carden’s No.3/B. Troop, 1st Dragoons, in the Waterloo Campaign. He was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner, upon reduction of the regiment, on 24 October 1821, having served 17 years 2 months, including two years for Waterloo. A labourer from Reading, Berkshire, he was then aged 34 years and granted a pension of 5 pence per day.

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