Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

James Paterson, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), who attended the wounded horses after Waterloo

Waterloo 1815 (James Paterson 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, nearly very fine £4000-5000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Sotheby, June 1884 and February 1886; Glendining, September 1990.

James Paterson/Patterson was born on 10 April 1775, in the Parish of Newlands, Glasgow. He enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons on 25 May 1811, a Tailor by trade, and served in Captain Payne’s Troop at the battle of Waterloo. Greys’ Ghosts - Men of the Scots Greys at Waterloo 1815, by Stuart Mellor, notes that he attended the wounded horses after Waterloo.