Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Robins, 18th Regiment Hussars.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, light edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Baldwin 1934; Glendining’s, March 1968.

Thomas Robins was born in the Parish of Wells, Somerset, and enlisted into the 18th Hussars at Frome, Somerset, on 22 December 1803, aged 18, for unlimited service, a labourer by trade. The musters for July 1813 show him as ‘Sick in Regtl. Hospital at Vittoria’, where he remained until the end of the year. He was present at Waterloo ‘with Officers Baggage, marched with the Regt. 16, ordered to the rear 17 June.’ His name appears on the special supplementary pay list for Waterloo, granting extra pay for all men present at that battle, after which he returned to England and served on numerous detachments in all parts of the country. He was ‘Discharged Recommended’ at Newbridge, Ireland, on 10 September 1821, to Kilmainham Hospital pension, upon the ‘Disbandment of the Regiment’. He was granted a pension of 9d per day which he received at Frome, Somerset, where he died on 20 March 1850, having lived to claim his M.G.S. medal with clasps for Vittoria and Toulouse. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.