Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo Medal awarded to Corporal W. Theordy, 40th Foot, who served with the Grenadier Company in Egypt, and then throughout the Peninsula, receiving a unique 11 clasp Military General Service Medal

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Theordy, 1st Batt. 40th Reg. Foot.) with original steel clip and slightly later split ring suspension, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1,600-£2,000

William Theordy (also recorded as Theady) was born in Carrington, Bedford, and attested for the 40th Regiment of Foot on 15 July 1799. He served in Holland, and then with the Grenadier Company throughout the whole of the campaign in Egypt, where he was considered a ‘very gallant’ soldier (discharge papers refer). He saw further service in South America, and then throughout the whole of the Peninsula War, and in Captain J. Barnett’s Company during the Waterloo campaign. He served as a Corporal for 5 years, and as a Sergeant for 2 years and 92 days, and was discharged on 24 April 1816, after 18 years and 285 days’ service. He lived to claim and received an 11-clasp Military General Service Medal, with clasps for Egypt, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and Orthes, a unique combination of clasps to the British Army, and died in Chelsea on 7 August 1858.

Sold with copied discharged papers.