Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Wilson, 12th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with original steel clip and later ring suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £1,400-£1,800

Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, December 1994 (’an Important Collection of Waterloo Medals’)

Thomas Wilson was born in South Leith, Mid Lothian, in 1794 and attested for the 12th Light Dragoons in November 1812. He served with the Regiment during the Waterloo campaign, 16-18 June 1815, and received a gunshot wound in the right arm at the Battle of Waterloo. He was discharged to Chelsea Hospital on 13 July 1816.