Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Waterloo 1815 (Hugh M’Lennan, 1st Batt. 79th Reg. Foot), replacement silver straight bar suspension, correction to one letter of surname, some edge bruising, heavy contact marks, fine £1000-1200

Hugh McLennan was born in 1791 near Inverness. He enlisted into the 2nd battalion 79th Foot in the Inverness District in 1808 and served withem until transferred to the 1st Battalion at Stirling Castle in 1809. With them he served in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809 and then in Portugal,Spain and France during 1810 - 14, where he saw action at Badajoz, Burgos, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Toulouse. At the Battle of Toulouse, 10.4.1814, he suffered a wound to the head caused by a musket ball. In the Waterloo Campaign McLennan served in Captain J. Campbell’s Company No.7 (In The Waterloo Medal Roll, listed as Hugh McLinnon) and was severely wounded in the neck by a musket ball at Quatre Bras, 16.6.1815. Recovering from his wounds, McLennan was promoted Corporal in September 1815 and Sergeant in 1820. He was discharged in 1821 at Kilmainham Hospital due to ‘impaired constitution from disease contracted in the service’. Sold with copied service papers, entry taken from the Kilmainham Pension Register and other copied research details.