Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Hoyles, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guar..) fitted with replacement silver bar suspension, crude attempt to obliterate rank and some loss to last part of unit, considerable contact wear, therefore good fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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William Hoyles was born at Bamford, Derbyshire, circa 1780, a brush maker by trade who enlisted into the 1st Foot Guards at Birmingham on 15 August 1805, aged 25 years. He was present at Barrosa in March 1811, and served in Lord Saltoun’s Light Company in the 3rd Battalion during the Waterloo campaign. He was wounded on the 16th of June at Quatre Bras, and was discharged to pension as a Sergeant on 8 March 1816, due to ‘fractured and contracted thigh by a gunshot at Waterloo.’ In October 1848, he was admitted as an in-pensioner at Chelsea Hospital where he died on 1 May 1866. He is also entitled to the M.G.S. Medal for Barrosa. Sold with copy discharge and pension papers.