Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Surgeon I. G. Logan, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, note incorrect first initial, nearly extremely fine; together with his 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry officer’s sabre, the single edged curved blade bearing blued and gilt etched decoration of a crowned GR cypher, Royal Arms, mounted cavalry officer brandishing his sword and martial trophies, steel stirrup guard with plain pointed langets with wire bound wooden grip, in its original polished steel scabbard with bands and loose rings, scabbard lightly pitted, blade retaining some 50% of original finish (2) £2500-3000

Thomas Galbraith Logan was born at Kirk Michael, Ayrshire, on 6 January 1780. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Ayrshire Militia on 23 June 1803, and subsequently with the 48th Foot from January 1805, and with the 7th Dragoon Guards from September 1806. On 24 December 1812, he was appointed as Surgeon to the 71st Foot and served with the regiment in the Peninsula. At the battle of Vittoria, 21 June 1813, he attended to the mortal wound of his heroic commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Cadogan. After the battles of the Pyrenees and Nive, in July and September 1813, Logan was transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons with whom he was present at Bayonne, Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo. Logan exchanged to the 5th Dragoon Guards in November 1818, and subsequently returned to his medical studies, qualifying as M.D. at Glasgow in 1823, and died at Edinburgh on 6 March 1836. His eldest son became Sir Thomas Logan, K.C.B., and served as Principal Medical Officer of the Highland Division in the Crimea, and later as Director-General of the Army Medical Department.