Auction Catalogue

4 December 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 27

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4 December 2001

Hammer Price:
£580

Waterloo 1815 (William Morby, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with replacement silver loop and small ring suspension, the loop clumsily soldered, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise better than good fine £600-800

William Morby was born in the Parish of Broughton, Oxfordshire, and attested for the 11th Light Dragoons at Birmingham on 21 April 1814, aged 18 years. He served ‘three and a half years in France - present at the Battle of Waterloo, and Siege of Bhurtpore’, and was discharged on 30 September 1832.