Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Josh. Roper, 10th Royal Hussars) fitted with a replacement steel clip and straight bar suspension, old re-engraved naming with the exception of the word ‘Hussars’, very fine £400-£500

Joseph Roper was present at Waterloo as a Sergeant in Captain Charles Wood’s Troop No. 5. Having then been pensioned in October 1828, he lived to receive the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814, with 4 clasps, having been present at Sahagun & Benevente, Vittoria, Orthes and Toulouse. He died in Nottingham on 23 December 1849; his obituary in the Nottingham Mercury states:

‘He was one of the veterans of the late war, having served with Sir J. Moore in the disastrous retreat to Corunna, and was afterwards with Wellington in a great number of engagements in the Peninsula and the South of France. He was taken prisoner in the campaign of 1813, but after suffering almost incredible hardships while amongst the French; he succeeded in escaping from them in June of that year. He was afterwards at Waterloo, where he was orderly-serjeant to the Earl of Uxbridge, now Marquis of Anglesea, the commander of the cavalry. He was lately quarter-master-serjeant of the Local Company of Veterans of Nottingham, and whilst holding that office had a number of apoplectic attacks, which incapacitated him for business and finally terminated his existance.’

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