Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Edward Leech, 6th or Inniskilling Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension, minor edge bruising and a little polished, otherwise good very fine £1600-1800

Edward Leech was born in the Parish of St Mary, near Chester, and was enlisted for the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at Chester on 10 April 1801, aged 20 years, for unlimited service. He served at Waterloo in Captain Hon. S. Douglas’s Troop, when his regiment formed part of Major-General Ponsonby’s ‘Union Brigade’. He was discharged at Glasgow on 11 June 1824, in consequence of ‘length of service’, his conduct being described as ‘remarkably good’. Sold with copied discharge papers.