Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo Medal awarded to Corporal Charles Conwell, 52nd Foot, who particularly distinguished himself on the advanced party of the stormers of St Sebastian

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Charles Conwell, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, better than good fine and rare £5000-6000

Charles Conwell was born in the Parish of Artera, near Magherafelt, Co. Derry, and enlisted for the 52nd Foot at Belfast on 10 September 1806, aged 33, for unlimited service. He fought with the regiment in the Peninsula and, as recorded on his discharge papers, ‘he particularly distinguished himself on the advanced party of the stormers of St Sebastian in Spain on the first of September 1813’. He was promoted to Corporal in February 1814 and was discharged in that rank, upon reduction of the regiment, on 27 May 1817, with 12 years 260 days service, including two years for Waterloo.

Charles Conwell is recorded as one of the storming party at St Sebastian and was presumably awarded the 52nd Foot Forlorn Hope medal (Balmer R390) for being ‘a volunteer in the leading column of attack at the assault of St Sebastian’. Sold with copied discharge papers.