Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Jams. M Grady 3rd Batt Royal Scots) fitted with replacement clip and small ring suspension, heavily pitted and worn £800-£1,000

James McGrady was born in the Parish of Templemore, near Derry, County Londonderry, and enlisted into the 1st Foot or Royal Scots at Belfast on 3 November 1811. He was discharged on 24 June 1817, in consequence of ‘loss of right eye in General hospital at St Denis in France in 1815’. He ‘received a wound in the left leg by a musquet ball on the 16th of June 1815, at the Battle of Quatre Bras.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.