Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Lees, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery.) fitted with steel clip and later ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800

Purchased Seaby, February 1980.

Samuel Lees was born in the Parish of Cheadle, Chester, and enlisted for the Royal Horse Artillery at Stockport on 29 March 1804, aged 19, a print cutter by trade. He served at Waterloo as a Gunner in Captain E. C. Whinyates Rocket Troop and was discharged at Woolwich, Kent, upon the reduction of the Rocket Troop on 31 July 1816, and granted a pension at Five Pence per diem commencing 1 August 1816.

Sold with copied discharge papers.