Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Staff Serj. William Hyde, 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, sometime pierced and repaired at 12 o’clock, nearly very fine £1,800-£2,200

Cattley Collection 1932.

William Hyde was born in Staines, Middlesex, and enlisted for the 15th Hussars at Newbury, Berkshire, on 15 April 1799, aged 16, for unlimited service. He served as a trumpeter for 15 years 194 days, and as sergeant and trumpet major for 4 year 16 days, serving in that capacity at Waterloo. He was discharged at Ipswich on 24 April 1818, in consequence of ‘permanent stricture (which has existed more or less between four and five years) produced by an injury received in riding and has lately been increased by abscess in the perineum.’ He was finally discharged to pension on 10 November 1818.

Sold with copied discharge papers.