Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Thomas James, 32nd Foot

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas James, 32nd Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £1800-2200

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

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Provenance: Glendining, June 1908.

Thomas James was born in Birmingham and enlisted into the 30th Foot on 30 September 1813, aged 15 years. He was present at Waterloo in Captain Hawe’s Company. The 32nd moved to Canada in 1830 and Thomas James died there on 24 September 1835, ‘accidentally killed by a fall from a ladder in the barrack square at Montreal’.

Sold with research.