Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

John Jenkinson, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards

Waterloo 1815 (John Jenkinson, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1800-2200

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

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John Jenkinson was born in the Parish of Syford, Staffordshire, and enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Birmingham on 2 October 1799, aged 18, for unlimited service. He was present at Waterloo in Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas’s Company, and was discharged on 11 October 1820, in consequence of rheumatism contracted in Flanders in 1813.

Sold with copied discharge papers.