Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (Mark Pyke, 23rd Regiment Foot, R.W.F.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, graffiti in obverse field, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1600-1800

Mark Pyke was born at Henley, Oxfordshire, and was enlisted for the 23rd Foot at the Head Quarters for the Berkshire Militia on 2 September 1808. He served mainly at home, including a period in 1810 at Norman Cross Barracks in Huntingdonshire, where French prisoners were held. In March 1816 he embarked for Belgium and France and took part in the Waterloo campaign, remaining in France until he was invalided at Valenciennes in November 1818. He was discharged at the Invalid Depot, Chatham, on 24 November 1818, in consequence of ‘epileptic fits which he has had for nine months following fever to which he is very subject’. Sold with copied discharge papers and muster details.