Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Goods. 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, some minor marks and lightly polished, otherwise good very fine £3,800-£4,400

Provenance: Colonel Murray Collection, Sotheby 1928.

Thomas Goods was born in the Parish of Panckern, near Bromyard, Herefordshire, and enlisted for the 2nd Dragoons at Worcester on 13 March 1804, aged 19, for unlimited service. He served in Captain Poole’s Troop at Waterloo and although this troop was very much in the thick of the action, Goods appears to have escaped injury. He served in the regiment for 22 years and 32 days and was discharged at Dublin on 13 April 1826, in consequence of being ‘worn out in the service’. He was admitted to an out-pension at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 17 May 1826, at the rate of 1s per day. Sold with copied discharge papers.