Waterloo 1815 (Armourer Serjt. John Taylor. 2nd Battallion [sic] 73rd Regt. of Foot) naming re-engraved in small sloping serif capitals, plugged at 12 o’clock and fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, heavy edge bruising and contact marks, therefore poor £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Contemporarily Renamed Waterloo Medals.

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John Taylor was born in Birmingham in about 1782 and served in the Royal Clan-Alpin Fencibles from May 1799 to July 1802. A gunsmith by trade he enlisted into the 73rd Foot at Birmingham on 21 April 1807. He was appointed Armourer-Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion on 25 February 1809, to Colour-Sergeant on 25 December 1813, and reverted to Armourer-Sergeant on 25 May 1815. He served at Waterloo in No. 6 (Grenadier) Company. Transferred to the 1st Battalion on 4 May 1817, he was discharged on 24 June 1817, having been ruptured on the march from Waterloo to Paris, aged 35. He was admitted as an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 1 November 1851, aged 69. Sold with research notes.