Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (John Howorth, Royal Artillery Drivers) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £1400-1600

Ex Darwent collection 2004.

John Howorth was born at Rossendale, Lancashire, circa 1792, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery in 1812. He was discharged in November 1818, granted a pension in January 1856, and was present at the unveiling of the Wellington Memorial at Piccadilly, Manchester, in August 1856. He appears on the Chelsea Pension register - Examination of Invalid Soldiers on Tuesday 1st Jan. 1856, which records that he ‘lost a finger of the left hand by wound from the splinter of a shell at Waterloo’. He died at Bolton on 11 December 1856. Also entitled to M.G.S. medal for Vittoria and St Sebastian.