Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (T. Harrison, 14th Foot.) minor edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine £800-1000

Thomas Harrison was born at Callingham, Nottingham, circa 1793, and attested for the 14th Foot at Deal, Kent, on 5 April 1814, aged 21 years. His discharge papers confirm that he was present at Waterloo and Cambray, for which he was credited with 2 years service, and that he served in the East Indies from July 1816 until June 1831. His papers also state that he served in the Deccan Campaign (1817-18) and at the taking of Hathrass and at the siege and capture of Bhurtpoor. He served in Captain William Ross’s Company at Waterloo. At Bhurtpoor the front rank of the 14th Foot consisted of Waterloo veterans, each of whom wore his Waterloo medal. He was discharged in 1831, his papers stating ‘subject to chronic rheumatism originating from exposure at the Siege of Bhurtpoor...’

Thomas Harrison’s Waterloo medal was sold in these rooms in March 2005.