Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Smith, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver post-loop and straight bar suspension, polished and worn, otherwise good fine £1,800-£2,200

Samuel Smith was born at Fresonfield, near Halston, Norfolk, and enlisted for the Grenadier Guards at Norwich on 10 May 1804, aged 25, for unlimited service, a labourer by trade, having 2 years previous service in the 13th Light Dragoons. He was discharged at Windsor Barracks on 2 November 1818, in consequence of ‘being wounded in the Hand at the Battle of Waterloo’, where he served in Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stables’ Company. Stables was himself wounded at Waterloo and died from his wounds on the following day.


Sold with copied discharge papers and Company medal roll.