Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. John Banner, 23rd Light Dragoons.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, overall contact pitting, otherwise nearly very fine £3,600-£4,400

John Banner was appointed an Ensign in the Army on 12 January 1809, and a Cornet in the 23rd Light Dragoons on 15 June 1809, being promoted to Lieutenant on 15 March 1810. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Army on 9 November 1816, and transferred in the same rank to the 93rd Highlanders on 21 November 1828, and made Brevet-Major on 10 January 1837. In 1836 he wrote a reply in The United Service Magazine to Colonel Gawler’s Crisis of Waterloo. Brevet Major John Banner died on 24 December 1837.