Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 36

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Charles Clifton, 3rd Batt. 14th Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and small ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1000-1200

Charles Clifton joined the 14th Regiment as a volunteer from the Buckinghamshire Militia on 13 September 1807. He served with the 2nd Battalion in Spain in 1808-09, and at Malta from April 1810 until December 1813, when he was sent to England to join the 3rd Battalion. He went with the 3rd Battalion to France in December 1814 and returned to England the following September after the conclusion of the Waterloo campaign. After further service at home and in the Ionian Islands he was sent for discharge on 23 December 1817. Sold with some research.