Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (John Beamish 32nd Regiment Foot.) with replacement steel clip and split ring suspension, contact marks, fine £1,000-£1,400

John Beamish was born near Skibbereen, Cork, and attested for the 32nd Foot at Fermoy in March 1809. He served in Captain R. Lewin’s Company at Waterloo, where he was ‘slightly wounded at Waterloo by a musket ball which caused a contusion in the neck.’