Orders, Decorations and Medals

An invitation to Lieutenant-General Sir George Scovell to attend a Waterloo Dinner at Apsley House, together with other family papers and items of Waterloo interest, including a cutting of hair taken from Sir George’s horse at Waterloo: the invitation from the Duke of Wellington for a reunion dinner to be held on 18 June 1852, ‘to celebrate the Army of the Battle of Waterloo’, the last such gathering in his lifetime; the cutting of hair from Sir George’s Waterloo charger contained in an envelope with old ink inscription, ‘Hair from the mane of the horse that carried Sir George Scovell at the battle of Waterloo the whole day of 18th June 1815 in close personal staff of the Duke of Wellington with whom he supped after the arrival of the Prufians on the Field’; an old handwritten copy of the letter Sir George sent to his mother the day after Waterloo; a printed Copy of Memorandum of Service at the Battle of Waterloo by General Sir George Scovell, G.C.B., ‘For Private Circulation Only’, n.d.; an old handwritten copy of the epitaph to “Copenhagen”, the Duke’s faithful charger (1836); and the assorted family papers including letters concerning Scovell’s career, generally in good condition (Lot) £150-200