Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Serjeant Jos. Green, 2nd Batt. Grenad Guards) fitted with contemporary replacement ring and silver bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1,800-£2,200

Joseph Green (also Greene) was born at Seycourt, Buckinghamshire, and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, at Oxford on 28 January 1805. He was wounded in the leg at Bergen op Zoom in March 1814, and also wounded at Waterloo on 18 June, where he served as a Sergeant in Lieutenant-Colonel Hill’s Company. He was discharged on 8 April 1816, not recommended for pension, aged 43. He was also rejected at a pension examination on 12 December 1827 (Men of the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo and Beyond, by Barbara Chambers refers).