Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (James Lewis, 3rd Bat. 1st Foot or R. Scots.) steel clip and ring suspension, with silver brooch bar, some edge bruising, contact marks, small cuts to edge at 8 o’clock, good fine £1200-1500

James Lewis, 1st Regiment (Royal Scots) served in the Peninsula War and was later able to claim a Military General Service Medal with clasps for Salamanca and St. Sebastian. In the Waterloo campaign he served in Captain J. MacRa’s Company No. 4, 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment. Listed in Mullen as a Kilmainham In-Pensioner. With copied roll extracts.