Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Corporal James Allen, 1st Regiment Life Guards) fitted with replacement hinged silver bar suspension, obverse with contact wear from contact with cuirass strap, therefore good fine, the reverse better £2,600-£3,000

Littledale sale, November 1910; Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015.

James Allen was born at Wells, Somerset, and enlisted into the 1st Life Guards in London on 20 April 1807, aged 19 years. He was promoted to Corporal on 2 October 1812, and to Corporal of Horse on 12 April 1814. He served with the regiment’s detachment in the Peninsula from October 1812 until August 1814, and again during the Waterloo campaign in 1815, having left England in April and returning in February 1816. He died whilst serving at Hyde Park Barracks on 22 July 1824.