Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Chapman, 12th Reg. Light Dragoons.) plugged at 12 o’clock and re-fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £900-1200

Samuel Chapman was born on 2 November 1792 and served in the 12th Light Dragoons from 24 November 1808. He served in Captain Erskine’s Troop at Waterloo and transferred to the Cavalry Staff Corps on 24 February 1818, being discharged later that year.

See Balmer’s Regimental and Volunteer Medals (R70) for details of a silver engraved medal ‘Presented to Samuel Chapman A Token of Regard from his Brothers in Arms 1817’. Sold with some muster details.