Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Church, 6th or Inniskilling Drag.) fitted with attractive replacement suspension in the form of a silver scallop shell and hinged silver bar, light edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise about very fine £1800-2200

Samuel Church was born in the Parish of Shelford, near Braintree, Essex, and attested for the Inniskilling Dragoons at Ipswich on 31 October 1806, aged 18 years. He served abroad ‘eight months in Flanders and France during the campaign of 1815, the remainder at home.’ At Waterloo he fought in Captain Thomas Mackay’s Troop. Samuel Church was discharged at Dublin at his own request ‘on the modified rate of pension’ on 13 April 1831. It was his intention to reside at Leeds, Yorkshire. Sold with copy discharge papers.