Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo Medal awarded to Lieutenant George Lane, 1st Foot or Royal Scots, who was severely wounded on 18 June 1815; no Regiment suffered higher casualties amongst its officers, as a percentage, than the Royal Scots, in killed and wounded, only four of its thirty-seven combatant officers remaining unwounded

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Geo. Lane, 3rd Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.) fitted with steel clip and contemporary silver bar suspension; together with oval portrait miniature of Lane in uniform, attributed to Frederick Buck (1771-1839),watercolour and gouache, oval, 63mm x 52mm, encased in metal frame with remains of pin fitting to verso; and another of his wife, in Regency dress reading a book, artist unknown, watercolour mounted on card, 98mm x 75mm, inscribed on verso ‘Jane Belinda Lane, Cheltenham April the 6th 1816’, the medal polished and worn overall, therefore good fine and rare, the portraits fair condition £6,000-£8,000

George Lane was appointed Ensign in the 1st or Royal Scots Regiment of Foot on 28 February 1812, becoming Lieutenant on 26 July 1813. He served with the 3rd Battalion in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809, and in the Peninsula from July 1812 to April 1814, being present at Osma, Vittoria, St Sebastian, Nivelle and Bayonne; and in the Waterloo campaign of 1815 at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, where he was severely wounded. He left the Army upon the disbandment of the Battalion in April 1817.

The 3rd Battalion, 1st Foot (Royal Scots), suffered very heavy casualties of 362 officers and men at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; in fact, no Regiment suffered higher casualties amongst its officers, as a percentage, than the Royal Scots, in killed and wounded, only four of its thirty-seven combatant officers remaining unwounded.

Sold with his original vellum commission as Lieutenant in the First (or the Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot, dated Carlton House, 26th day of August 1813; and another document on vellum appointing him as a Master Mason of Lodge No. 25 at Cork, 27th October 1814.