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Waterloo 1815 (David Cameron, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £3000-3500

David Cameron, a Labourer from Banff, enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 92nd Highlanders, on 11 June 1807. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, along with several others, in June 1809, to bring it back up to strength after the Corunna campaign. The Muster lists show him to be the only Cameron with the Christian name of David, and list him as being wounded at Vittoria where he served in Campbell’s No. 2 Company. He was left at Vittoria, recovering from his wounds, until February 1814 and rejoined the 92nd in France the following month. At Waterloo he served in Captain Peter Wilkie’s No. 10 Company and was again wounded, being ‘at Brussels - wounded’ in the musters of June to September 1815. He left hospital and rejoined his regiment towards the end of October. Early in 1819 he sailed for Jamaica in the transport Nautilus, and died there on 14 September 1819, when the regiment was decimated by yellow fever.