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

Pair: Private Thomas Crook, 1st Royal Dragoons

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Crook, Private, 1st or Royal Dragoons), old straight-bar suspension; Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (Thomas Crook, 1st Dragoons, 1834), old straight-bar suspension, the first with contemporary re-engraved naming, contact marks, edge bruising and polished, fair to fine (2) £800-1000

Thomas Crook was born in 1792 at Upper Letcombe, near Wantage, Berkshire. Enlisting into the Army in 1808, he served with the 1st Dragoons in the Peninsula War, being present at the battles of Vittoria and Toulouse. He served in Captain Phipp’s No. 5 or ‘F’ Troop, 1st Royal Dragoons, in the Waterloo Campaign. Crook was discharged in August 1834 at Brighton and died on 19 December 1869. The recipient’s M.G.S. 2 clasp medal is held in the Household Cavalry Regimental Museum.

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