Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Toulouse (Thomas Howland, 13th Light Dragoons.) light edge bruising and contact marks £1,000-£1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 13th, 18th and 13th/18th Hussars.

View
Collection

Provenance: Seaby, October 1943. His Waterloo medal was sold in these rooms on 27 June 2012, together with the original lid to the card box of issue for his M.G.S., inscribed with his name and regiment, and three tunic buttons in excavated condition.

Thomas Howland was born in the Parish of Eastling, near Faversham, Kent, and enlisted for the 13th Light Dragoons on 2 August 1803. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where the 13th Light Dragoons formed part of the 7th Brigade commanded by Colonel Sir F. Arentschildt, and was discharged on 18 March 1819. Allowed half-time during his ‘absence’, 19 March to 24 November, he re-enlisted into the First Royal Regiment of Veterans at Chatham on 25 November 1819, and was finally discharged on 24 June 1821, in consequence of the disbandment of the regiment and being worn out, aged about 41 years.

Thomas Howland became an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital and was one of the last surviving other ranks from the 13th Light Dragoons when he died in March 1871, aged 86, being buried in Norton St Mary Church, Kent. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.