Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (Hosp. Assist. T. Caverhill, Medical Staff) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Robert Caverhill (note incorrect initial on medal) was appointed as Hospital Mate on 21 December 1811, becoming Hospital Assistant on 23 March 1815. He served in the Peninsula in 1812, 13, and 14, and at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Staff on 28 December 1820, but had already died earlier that month in Barbados on 9 December.