Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private T. Herbert, Grenadier Guards

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Nivelle, Nive (T. Herbert, 1st Foot Gds.); Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Herbert, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards) replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, second with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (2) £ 2400-2800

M.G.S. ex Sotheby’s, November 1986.

Thomas Herbert was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. A Volunteer from the Northamptonshire Militia, he enlisted for service in the 1st Foot Guards on 4 May 1812, aged 22 years. With the Guards he served in the latter stages of the Peninsula War and was later able to claim the M.G.S. Medal with two clasps. In the Waterloo campaign he served in Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Staple’s Company, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. He was discharged on 3 May 1819 as time expired.

With copied roll extracts and service notes.