Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Jos. Bottomly, 1st Regiment Life Guards.) fitted with steel clip and later ring suspension, good fine and better £1,800-£2,200

Joseph Bottomly was born on 18 June 1795 [Dwelly] in the Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire, and attested for the First Life Guards at Milnsbridge, York, on 28 December 1812 at the age of 17, a carpenter by trade. He ‘served with the First Life Guards in the Peninsula, Netherlands & France, and was present at the Battle of Waterloo.’ He was discharged on 9 August 1836 in consequence of ‘impaired general health and chronic rheumatism contracted in the service.’

Sold with copied discharge papers.