Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S.G.C., W.IV.R. (Thomas Love, Grenadier Guards. 1834) fitted with steel clip and small ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Thomas Love was born in the Parish of Ash, near Dartford, Kent, circa 1794. He enlisted into the 1st Foot Guards at Gosport on 4 December 1813, aged 19 years. He was wounded slightly in the left leg at Bergen-op-Zoom, 8 March 1814, and served with Lieutenant-Colonel Hill’s Company in the 3rd Battalion at Waterloo. He was discharged to pension at Windsor on 8 May 1833, was admitted as an in-pensioner to Chelsea Hospital in October 1858, and died there on 4 October 1872, aged 78 years. Sold with copy discharge and pension papers and death certificate.