Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (George Hanson, Royal Horse Guards.) replacement steel clip and straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising and contact marks, good very fine £2200-2600

George Hansen was born in Northowram, near Halifax, West Yorkshire. A Weaver by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Horse Guards on 24 January 1793. Probably served with the regiment at the battles of Beaumont, 26 April 1794 and Willems, 10 May 1794. He served in Captain Thoyts Troop, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) in the Waterloo campaign. In the battle the unit formed part of the 1st (Household) Cavalry Brigade commanded by Major-General Lord Somerset. Discharged 8 February 1817, being ‘rheumatic and worn out’.

With a velvet pouch and copied discharge papers, roll extracts and other research.