Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Serjt. Thomas Dudman, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with contemporary German-silver clip and bar suspension, this engraved ‘Serjt. Thos. Dudman 13th L. D.’, a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1600-1800

Provenance: Sotheby, March 1984.

Thomas Dudman was born in the Parish of Kimpton, Hampshire, and enlisted into the Hampshire Fencible Cavalry at Lewes, Sussex, on 2 May 1796. He transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons on 31 March 1800, serving with the regiment in the ‘Peninsula and at the battle of Waterloo’, and was discharged on 31 March 1817, on reduction of the regiment. He served a total of 23 years 10 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, Sold with copied discharge papers.