Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Serj. William Shannon, 1st Batt. 4th Reg. Foot.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver clip and bar suspension, some edge bruising and contact marks but generally very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1908; Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999.

William Shannon served as a Sergeant in Captain Kirwan’s Company at Waterloo. He had previously served in the Peninsula at the battle of Salamanca, for which he subsequently received the M.G.S. medal. He also served in North America from June 1814, where the regiment participated in the battles of Bladensburg, Godley Wood and New Orleans, returning to England in May 1815.