Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Daniel Singer, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, pawnbroker’s mark scratched in obverse field, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400

Daniel Singer enlisted into the 13th Light Dragoons at the regimental headquarters in Hounslow on 1 November 1809 for a bounty of £13.8s. He was promoted to Corporal in 5 Troop (Captain Gubbins) by December 1813, and to Sergeant in 2 Troop sometime before May 1815. He served in Portugal, Spain and France in the Peninsula campaign, and was present at the battle of Waterloo in Captain Doherty’s Troop. From July 1816 to March 1817, he was on recruiting duty at Romford, Essex, and was discharged there for reasons unknown on 15 April 1817.