Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private Walter Hill, 91st Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes (Walter Hill, 91st Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Walter Hill, 1st Batt. 91st Reg. Foot) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, polished overall, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £2000-2500

Walter Hill was born at Forfar and enlisted into the 91st Foot on 2 May 1811, a Weaver by trade. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in Captain J. C. Murdoch’s No. 3 Company. He was discharged at York on 3 August 1816, in consequence of gun shot wounds to his right shoulder and left arm. His discharge papers further note that ‘he uniformly maintained an excellent character in the 91st Regiment, that he was severely wounded at Toulouse and is entitled to count two years service for Waterloo’.

Despite his undoubted presence at the battle of Toulouse, his claim for this clasp was disallowed, a note on the roll stating ‘sick rear’.

Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll entries.