Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo Banquet Archive for 1852, comprising 36 hand written replies to the invitation to the 1852 Waterloo Banquet from senior surviving Waterloo and Peninsula veterans addressed to Wellington’s Private Secretary, Greville. The whole mounted on paper and presumably retained by Secretary Greville and indeed this was a significant year being the last one of the great Duke’s dinners. Now contained in a fine quality scarlet and blue folder, very good condition £500-£1,000

The replies are from:
Colonel Anstruther, Lieut. Colonel Cook, Colonel Charles Diggle, Lieut. Colonel Enoch, Lieut. General Webber Smith, Major General McDonald, Colonel C. J. B. Lascelles, Major General Anson (later Governor General of India), Colonel Dawson Damer, Colonel Henry Frederick Bouvery, Major General Berkeley Drummond, Colonel Richard Egerton, Major General Sir George Bowles, Lieut. General the Hon. H. Murray, Lieut. General Reeve, Colonel Horton, Sir Edward Kerrison, Colonel Hely Hutchinson, Lieut. General James Hay, Lieut. General Dalmer, Major General Taylor, Major General Walton, Colonel Whinyates, Lieut. Colonel Wilkins, Major General Sir Henry Floyd, Major General Robbins, Colonel Oldfield, Colonel Lord Rokeby, Colonel Martin, Major General Fane, Major General Llewellyn, Major General Sir Willoughby Rook.

The reverse of four pages applied with contemporary obituary and biographical notices.