Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 364

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,300

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Harper, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine £2000-2500

Thomas Harper was born in the Parish of Cromarty, Ross-shire, and enlisted into the 92nd Regiment at Galway on 5 August 1806, aged 28. He served in Captain Peter Wilkie’s Company at Waterloo and was discharged at Kilmainham on 24 November 1818, in consequence of a reduction in the establishment of the regiment and impaired constitution.

Sold with copy discharge papers.