Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Richard Johnson, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards) replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, fine £1500-1800

Ex Glendining’s 18 March 1981.

Richard Johnson was born in Stanstead, near Ware, Hertfordshire. He enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1812, aged 19 years. Served in the Peninsula War and was awarded the Military General Service Medal with clasps for St. Sebastian, Nivelle and Nive (ex. Sotheby’s, December 1991; Ursual, December 1998; D.N.W., April 2003). Served in Lieutenant-Colonel Jones Company, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Waterloo campaign. Was discharged on 25 January 1816 as a ‘consequence of a contracted hand from a gunshot wound at Waterloo’. With copied discharge papers and other research.