Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine Napoleonic war and Waterloo pair awarded to Private Samuel Green, 2nd Battalion, 95th Foot (Rifles)

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Samuel Green, 95th Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Green, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with replacement silver clip and steel ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £5,000-£7,000

Glendining’s, February 1920; Elson Collection, Glendining’s, September 1963.

Samuel Green was born in the Parish of Pershore, Worcestershire, and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 95th Foot (Rifle Brigade) at Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 3 April 1809, aged 21, for unlimited service, a labourer by trade. He served 22 years 350 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged at Devonport on 9 March 1830, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism and cough.’

Sold with copied discharge papers.