Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (James Prince, 2nd Life Guards. 1832.) original steel clip and rectangular bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £500-£600

Provenance: Jubilee Collection, Glendining’s, May 1992.

James Prince was born at Wetherby, Yorkshire, and attested there for the 2nd Life Guards on 7 December 1809, aged 19. ‘He served in the Peninsula and on the Continent from November 1812 to July 1814, and on the Continent from May 1815 to January 1816 - at the battles of Vittoria and Waterloo.’ He was discharged on 3 January 1832. Also entitled to M.G.S. for Vittoria and Waterloo medal. Sold with copied discharge papers.