Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Hugh Conroy, 44th Foot, who was wounded at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca (Hugh Conroy, 44th Foot.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1400

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

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Provenance: Needes Collection 1919.

Hugh Conroy was born at Burris, Queen’s County, Ireland, and enlisted into the 44th Foot on 13 September 1806, aged 18, a Brogue Maker by trade. He served with the 2nd Battalion in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, but was transferred afterwards to the 1st Battalion before being discharged to pension from the Kilmainham Hospital on 29 May 1816. The admission book states that he was suffering from a ‘fractured olecranon [elbow] & partial dislocation, and slightly wounded at Waterloo’.

Sold with copied admission book entry.