Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (William Watt, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and silver bar suspension the undersided of which is intriguingly scratch-engraved ‘J. James 2 N.B.D.Gs’, contact marks, otherwise a pleasing very fine £4000-5000

William Watt was born on 28 October 1788, at Inveresk, Midlothian, and enlisted at Edinburgh on 4 May 1805, aged 16. By trade a blacksmith he served as a regimental farrier and was in Captain Cheyney’s Troop at the battle of Waterloo. He was discharged on 23 October 1821, in consequence of ‘being unfit for further service, being subject to chronic rheumatism which incapacitates him from performing his duty as a farrier.’ Sold with comprehensive research including copied pay lists and discharge papers.