Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Renamed Medal: Waterloo 1815 (Adjutant Wm. Duff 42nd (or) R.H. Regiment.) contemporarily re-engraved naming in upright sloping serif capitals, fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver bar suspension with silver ribbon slide and old silk ribbon, attractively toned, very fine £500-£700

The only officer named William Duff/Duffe at this period was on the English half-pay as Adjutant of the Clanalpine (Murray’s) Fencible Infantry from 21 December 1799, the same man, possibly, being appointed Ensign, retired on full-pay of the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion on 31 August 1815. No man of this name is listed as serving in the 42nd Regiment at Waterloo.