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Waterloo 1815 (Serj. John Tebbs, 1st Reg. Dragoon Guards.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, small test mark after ‘Reg.’, some light contact marks and wear but generally very fine and a rare casualty £3,000-£4,000

John Tebbs enlisted into the 1st or King’s Dragoon Guards on 21 April 1801. He was promoted to Corporal on 21 October 1811, and to Sergeant on 24 March 1815. The muster list for the period 25 September to 24 December, 1815, lists him as ‘missing in action 18 June 1815.’ In The Cavalry that Broke Napoleon, by Richard Goldsbrough, he is recorded as having served as a Sergeant in No. 5 Troop under Major John Bringhurst and that he was killed in action. Bringhurst’s No. 5 Troop suffered a higher number of killed, twenty-two, than any other Troop in the Regiment, probably as a result of it having penetrated the French line, where, those who had not yet been unhorsed or killed, were either killed or captured and executed. Major Bringhurst’s was also killed and his body found close to the west gate of La Haye Sainte, a long way in advance of the rest of the Union Brigade at the end of their charge.

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