Auction Catalogue

23 September 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

№ 15

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,800

Waterloo 1815 (William Harris, 51st Reg. Light Infantry) fitted with original steel clip and later ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1400-1600

William Harris was born in the Parish of St Neots, Cornwall, and enlisted into the 51st Light Infantry at Truro on 27 July 1805, aged 18. He served in Captain R. Storer’s Company at Waterloo and was discharged on 24 October 1818. Sold with copied discharge papers and a Ken Trotman reprint of A Brief History of the 51st Regiment in the Napoleonic Wars.