Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Howland, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons) with steel clip and contemporary replacement steel straight bar suspension, edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200

Thomas Howland was born in the Parish of Eastling, near Faversham, Kent, and enlisted for the 13th Light Dragoons on 2 August 1803. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where the 13th Light Dragoons formed part of the 7th Brigade commanded by Colonel Sir F. Arentschildt, and was discharged on 18 March 1819. Allowed half-time during his ‘absence’, 19 March to 24 November, he re-enlisted into the 1st Royal Regiment of Veterans at Chatham on 25 November 1819, and was finally discharged on 24 June 1821, in consequence of the disbandment of the regiment and being worn out, aged about 41 years.

Thomas Howland became an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital and lived to claim the M.G.S. for the battles of Albuhera, Vittoria and Toulouse (sold by Seaby in October 1943). He was one of the last surviving other ranks from the 13th Light Dragoons when he died in March 1871, aged 86, being buried in Norton St Mary Church, Kent.

Sold with copied discharge and pension papers together with the original lid to the card box of issue for his M.G.S., inscribed with his name and regiment, and three tunic buttons, these in excavated condition.