Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Peter Bush, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons,) fitted with contemporary replacement silver clip and bar suspension, the bar neatly engraved ‘Peter Bush 13 LD’, and silver brooch buckle, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1,400-£1,800

Peter Bush was born in Roscommon, County Wicklow, and enlisted into the 13th Light Dragoons at Dublin on 25 January 1799, aged 20, a weaver by trade. He served with the regiment in the Peninsula and later claimed the M.G.S. medal with clasps for Albuhera, Orthes and Toulouse, and also at the battle of Waterloo for which he received the medal and 2 years additional service. He was discharged at Manchester on 31 December 1818, ‘being nearly worn out and unfit for service in India’, his conduct being described as ‘very good both on service and at home.’ He received his final discharge at Horse Guards on 24 March 1819, and was admitted to a Chelsea out-pension on the following day. He died on 3 February 1853, aged 73. Sold with copied discharge and pension papers.