Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Charles Shields, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £1,200-£1,600

Sotheby, December 1896; Glendining’s, June 1924; Harrison Collection 1934.

Charles Shields was born in the Parish of Newark, Nottinghamshire, and enlisted for unlimited service in the Grenadier Guards at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 16 October 1797, aged 20, a brush maker by trade. He served for 21 years 18 days and was discharged at Windsor on 2 November 1818, in consequence of ‘long service’. He was granted two years’ additional service for Waterloo, where he was in Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. H. P. Townshend’s Company, and was admitted to a Chelsea out-pension of 1s/1d per diem on 11 November 1818.

Sold with copied discharge papers.