Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. Bradbury, 15th Hussars

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Sahagun, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (William Bradbury, 15th. Hussars.); Waterloo 1815 (William Bradbury 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars.) with later steel clip and split ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine (2) £3,600-£4,400

Provenance: Glendining’s, October 1949.

William Bradbury was born in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, on 27 March 1790 and attested for the 15th Hussars at Aston, Warwickshire, on 27 March 1805. He served with the Regiment throughout their involvement in the Peninsula, being present at all four actions in which the Regiment took part, including the action at Sahagun on 20 December 1808, and subsequently served during the Waterloo campaign, 16 to 18 June 1815. He was discharged on the reduction of the establishment on 24 April 1817, after 14 years and 20 days’ service.

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