Auction Catalogue

28 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

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

Lot

№ 204

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£2,000

Waterloo 1815 (John Oldham, 1st or Royal Dragoons) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, small edge bruise, otherwise better than very fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Seabrook.

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Collection

John Oldham had his arm fractured near the shoulder joint at Waterloo where his regiment made a memorable charge against a French column of 4,000 men, emerging after a desperate fight with the Eagle of the 105th Regiment. Oldham, a weaver from Middleton in Lancashire, joined the regiment in 1804, serving in Captain Carden's troop at Waterloo. As a result of his wounds received on the 18th June, he was discharged on the 24th October 1815, ‘A Good Soldier’, and admitted to Chelsea Hospital as a pensioner on 24th June 1816.