Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Owen O’Neill, 18th Regiment Hussars.) fitted with replacement silver loop and steel ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £1,200-£1,600

Sotheby, March 1881; Glendining’s, December 1903; Galwey Foley Collection 1918; Cattley Collection 1932.

Owen O’Neill was born in the Parish of Meshal, County Carlow, and enlisted at Dublin for the 18th Hussars on 26 August 1807, aged 20, for ten years, a tailor by trade. He was discharged from the regiment in France on 19 September 1817, the surgeon of the 18th Hussars certifying that ‘Owen O’Neill was severely wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Waterloo.’ His discharge was confirmed at Horse Guards on 10 November 1817, and he was admitted to an Out-pension at 6d per diem on the following day. He died on 26 November 1836.

Sold with copied discharge papers.