Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Jos. Tucky, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with replacement steel clip and small ring suspension, edge bruising and a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine £3000-3500

Joseph Tuckie/Tucky was born in the Parish of Boston, near Maidstone, Kent, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons at Canterbury on 24 December 1804, aged 18 years, a bricklayer by trade. He served in Captain Payne’s troop at Waterloo and was discharged at Piershill Barracks on 4 August 1818, in consequence of ‘having contracted a severe pectoral complaint during the campaign of 1815 in Flanders by exposure to wet and moisture.’ Sold with copy service papers.