Three: Lieutenant-Colonel V. F. W. A. Paget, Royal Field Artillery, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded the Cavalry at Waterloo

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget.) very fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Victor Frederick William Augustus Paget was born on 14 August 1861 at the British Legation, Copenhagen, Denmark, the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Augustus Paget, G.C.B., Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Denmark, and Countess Walpurga Helena, eldest daughter to Charles, Count of Hohenthal, and Lady of Honour to the Imperial Princess of Prussia. He was the great-grandson of Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and the great nephew of Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge and 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded the Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo, famously losing his leg in the Battle, at which the immortal dialogue was said to have taken place:
Uxbridge: “By Jove sir, I have lost a leg”
Wellington: “By Jove Sir, so you have.”

Paget was baptised in the Anglican church in Copenhagen in September 1861, and amongst his Godparents were the Imperial Prince and Princess of Prussia. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery on 26 July 1881. Promoted Captain on 31 March 1890, he served as an Aide-de-Camp at the British Legation in Copenhagen. Receiving his Majority on 9 October 1899, he retired on 25 December 1907, but was re-employed as Major in the Royal Field Artillery on the outbreak of the Great War. He served with the 62nd Brigade, New Armies, as a temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in France from 30 January 1915 until 30 March 1917, when he retired and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Paget married Miss Juliana Uniacke, the daughter of Captain Henry Turner Uniacke, 19th Foot, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, in September 1901. She died without issue in May 1906. Lieutenant-Colonel Paget died in London on 28 June 1927.