Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private John Squires, 13th Light Dragoons

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Toulouse (J. Squires, 13th L. Dgns.); Waterloo 1815 (John Squires, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise to the last and both with light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £2000-2500

John Squires was born in the Parish of Frith, Worcestershire, and enlisted at Worcester into the 13th Light Dragoons on 14 January 1804, aged 19 years. He ‘served with the regiment in the Peninsula and at the battle of Waterloo’, and was discharged at York on 24 September 1817, in consequence of a reduction in the regiment and suffering from varicose veins. John Squires died in April 1861 and was buried at St Mary’s Church, Tenbury, on the 16th of that month. Sold with comprehensive research.