Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Tho. Anderson, 1st Batt. 71st Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise, 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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Thomas Anderson was born at Forres, Murray, circa 1776, and enlisted into the 71st Foot at Inverness on 30 October 1797, aged 21 years 2 months. He was promoted to Corporal in October 1803, to Sergeant in February 1808, and to Colour-Sergeant in August 1815. He was discharged on 24 June 1817, being ‘very near sighted and unable to carry his pack on a march.’ His discharge documents and muster rolls record that during his service he was wounded under the left eye and taken prisoner at Buenos Ayres on 12 August 1806, and wounded in the right arm at Vimiera on 21 August 1808. He was taken prisoner a second time at Fuentes D’Onor on 5 May 1811, and remained a prisoner of war until 1814. Sergeant Anderson was wounded a third time, in the right thigh, at Waterloo on 18 June 1815.