Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

A Peninsula and Waterloo pair to Private John Bolton, 11th Light Dragoons

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (John Bolton, 11th Light Dragoons); Waterloo 1815 (John Bolton, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, a few edge bruises but generally very fine (2) £1400-1600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Seabrook.

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John Bolton was born at Tedbury (Tetbury), Gloucestershire, and enlisted there for the 11th Light Dragoons on 25 July 1794, aged 18. He ‘was with the Regiment in 1799; in the Peninsula 1811 & 1812; was [wounded] by Sabre on the right hand on the retreat from Burgos 23rd October; at the Battle of Waterloo.’ Bolton was invalided at Canterbury in December 1818, and finally discharged on 16 February 1819 at the age of 43.

In the action at Venta de Pozo bridge on 23 October 1812, the 11th Light Dragoons had 15 men and 19 horses killed, three officers, three sergeants, 23 privates and 14 horses wounded.