Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo medal awarded to Private John Walker, 1st Life Guards, who was severely wounded in the shoulder at Waterloo

Waterloo 1815 (John Walker 1st Regiment Life Guards.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and surface marks, otherwise very fine £2,400-£2,800

John Walker was born in the Parish of Bingley, Yorkshire, and was enlisted into the 1st Life Guards at the age of 22 years on 7 January 1812. He was promoted to Corporal of Horse on 10 August 1815, and was discharged at Hyde Park Barracks on 16 February 1816, in consequence of ‘impaired health from sickness in the Peninsula, and being disabled in the shoulder from a severe wound at Waterloo. He was then aged twenty-six and was admitted to an Out-Pension of 1s per diem on 6 March 1816.

Sold with copied discharge papers.