Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Bruce Ranken, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £2500-3000

Bruce Ranken (’Rankin’ on papers) was born in Aberdeen. He enlisted into the 92nd Regiment in 1811, aged 15 years, and served in Captain George Couper’s Company, 92nd Highlanders in the Waterloo campaign. At the battle of Quatre Bras he received a gunshot wound to the right ankle. The unit suffered 75 killed and 366 wounded during the campaign. Ranken was discharged due to his wound at Edinburgh Castle on 4 November 1816.

With a copied extract from the Register of Deaths, listing a Bryce Rankin (sic), a Chelsea Pensioner, having died on 18 January 1872, due to exhaustion from chronic bronchitis and old age. Also with copied discharge papers. and other research.