Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

John Gillman, 11th Light Dragoons

Waterloo 1815 (John Gillman, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge with small holes drilled at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, suspension re-fixed, edge bruising and polished, good fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Glendining, May 1970.

John Gillman was born at Canterbury, Kent, and enlisted into the 11th Light Dragoons on 6 September 1813. He died in the service at Maidstone Depot on 22 July 1827, the regimental pay-list recording that ‘the Waterloo Medal of Private John Gillman has been given to Private John Bodkin, his cousin, according to his dying request’. Sold with copied pay-list entries.