Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Meyes, 1st Batt. 27th Reg. Foot) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, minor edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine and very scarce £1800-2200

Thomas Meyes (spelt in a great variety of ways on the muster rolls) is first traced as a Private in the 27th Foot in June 1798. He was present with the regiment during the operations in Egypt in 1801, and at the battle of Maida in 1806. He served in Canada and North America in 1814-15, prior to his return to England in March of the latter year. At Waterloo his regiment suffered very severely. Out of 698 men, this regiment lost 480, having been almost blown to pieces when standing in square above the sandpit on the Charleroie road. Of its officers only 3 Lieutenants, the Quartermaster and 2 Assistant Surgeons survived the day unscathed.

After Waterloo, Thomas Meyes was transferred to the 3rd Battalion in November 1815, and upon that battalions disbandment in the following February, to the 2nd Battalion at Enniskillen. He was finally invalided out of the army on 5 June 1816. Thomas Meyes survived to claim his M.G.S. medal for Egypt and Maida.Sold with full muster details.