Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (John Reed 10th Royal Reg. Hussars) fitted with an unusual ‘clasped hand’ silver clip and bar suspension and attractive ‘rose, thistle & shamrock’ silver ribbon slide, edge bruising and contact wear, therefore good fine £1200-1400

John Reed was born in the Parish of Aldbourne, Wiltshire, and attested for the 10th Hussars at Bath on 5 May 1809, aged twenty, a Carpenter by trade. He served ‘in the Peninsula and in France in 1813 & 1814, and in Flanders and at the battle of Waterloo in 1815’, and was discharged at Leeds Barracks on 16 July 1830. He was, according to the Surgeon’s report, suffering from chronic rheumatism and ‘has been unable to ride for more than two years, on account of the motion invariably producing severe and lasting pain of the loins. Previous to this time he had suffered from rheumatism’. Sold with copied discharge papers.