Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Waterloo 1815 (Jacob Elliott, 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars), original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, minor contact marks, good very fine £1400-1600

Ex Gascoigne Collection, March 1909.

Jacob Elliott was born at Illminster, Somerset c.1893. By occupation a labourer, he enlisted into the 15th Hussars at Southampton on 29 July 1801. With the regiment he served in the Peninsular War, being present at the battles of Vittoria, Orthes and Toulouse - for which he was later awarded the Military General Service Medal with three clasps. Serving at Waterloo he received slight wounds to his head and hands, the regiment forming part of the 5th Brigade under Major-General Sir Colquhoun Grant. Elliott is listed in the Regimental History as being one of a number of soldiers who distinguished themselves in the Peninsula, the south of France or at Waterloo. For the last 1 year 60 days of his service he held the rank of Corporal. He was discharged at Birmingham on 12 August 1817 as a consequence of a reduction in the establishment and was in receipt of a pension. He died on 15 November 1855. Sold with copied service papers