Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Cornet John Fenn, Royal Waggon Train) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising and light contact marks, otherwise better then very fine £2500-3000

John Fenn was born circa 1790. He volunteered for the 4th Battalion Royal Scots from the Lanark Militia on 15 December 1808 and was promoted directly to Sergeant shortly afterwards. Fenn was sent on ‘command’ to the Military College at Sandhurst in May 1813 as a Staff Sergeant and in January 1814 was recommended for a commission in the following terms:

‘In consequence of a communication from Major-General Hamilton relative to the appointment of Staff Serjeant Fenn of the Royal Military College to a Cornetcy in the Royal Waggon Train, I have the honour to acquaint you that Serjeant Fenn’s conduct since he has been at the College, has been such that it will give me satisfaction to see his former merits in the Service rewarded’.

Fenn was duly commissioned a Cornet in the Royal Waggon Train on 4 May 1815, and served with this regiment at the battle of Waterloo, the most junior of the twelve officers present. He retired as a Lieutenant on Half-Pay on 25 December 1818 and died in about 1842. Sold with copied roll extracts and other research.