Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (William Carter, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and later ring suspension, contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £1200-1400

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

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William Carter was born at Pewsey, Wiltshire, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot on 5 April 1814, and served at Waterloo in Captain Love’s Company. In the muster taken on 24 June, he is recorded as being in the regimental hospital, probably wounded at Waterloo. The following muster shows him back with his regiment but he subsequently died in the regimental hospital on 16 May 1818, when the battalion was stationed near Blandignes, France.