Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Wilmot, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with replacement brass bar suspension and silver ribbon slide, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £4,000-£5,000

Thomas Wilmot was born in the Parish of Loughborough, Leicestershire, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons at Birmingham on 24 May 1799, aged 20, a blacksmith by trade. He served in Captain Fenton’s Troop at Waterloo and was discharged in the rank of Farrier Major on 23 October 1823, ‘being worn out in the service’, conduct ‘good’. He died at Leeds on 28 March 1857, his occupation being given as Master Smith and Farrier. It is perhaps worth noting that the suspension and ribbon slide on this medal are virtually identical to those on the Swan brothers’ medals, also of Fenton’s Troop, as illustrated in Grey’s Ghosts, by Stuart Mellor. Perhaps they were made by Farrier Major Wilmot himself.

Sold with copied discharge papers.