Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (William Hurford 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) engraved correction to ‘u’ of surname, fitted with contemporary replacement silver clip and bar suspension, heavy edge bruising and contact marks, therefore fine £1,000-£1,400

William Hurford/Harford was born in the Parish of Combe St Nicholas, near Illminster, Somerset, and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Dublin on 9 December 1813, aged 18, a tailor by trade. He served in Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Cooke’s Company at Waterloo which fought at the defence of Hougoumont until being withdrawn to the ridge at mid-afternoon. He was discharged to pension on 10 July 1833, to reside at Honiton, Devon. His discharge papers note that he served ‘In the Netherlands in 1814, at Waterloo in 1815, at Peronne, at Paris, and in the Army of Occupation until 1818.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.