Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (John Vile, 28th Regiment Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine £2000-2500

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

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John Vile was born at Ottersford, Somerset, circa 1781, and enlisted into the 28th Foot on 18 July 1804, a wool comber by trade, aged 23 years. He served in the expedition under Sir John Moore which culminated in the retreat to and the battle of Corunna in 1809, and later in the Peninsula under Wellington. He served at Waterloo in Captain Bowles’ No 7 Company. He was discharged from Haslar Barracks on 10 May 1816, in consequence of a gun shot wound in the head received at Vittoria. He successfully claimed his M.G.S. medal for Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, and Toulouse, and died in the Exeter pension district on 4 March 1855. Sold with copy discharge papers.