Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Tr. Serj. Maj. F. Kinkee, 10th Royal Reg. Hussars) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £1800-2200

Ex Sotheby’s, February 1892, and Gaskell collection 1908.

Frederick Kinkee served in the Peninsula, France and Flanders, from January 1813 to the end of the War in 1815, including the action at Morales de Toro, and battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes and Waterloo, where he was Troop Sergeant Major of Captain Charles Wood’s Troop. He was given a commission as Quarter-Master in the 19th Light Dragoons on 1 June 1824, and was placed on half pay on 18 August 1825. He lived to claim his M.G.S. medal with two clasps for Vittoria and Orthes and died in November 1863.