Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Stephen Cliffe, 1st Regiment Life Guards.) fitted with replacement silver clip and silver bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £2,600-£3,000

Sotheby, July 1878; Elson Collection 1963.

Stephen Cliffe was born in the Parish of Kirkeaton, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and enlisted there for the 1st Life Guards on 4 November 1812, aged 22, for life, a clothier by trade. He served 6 years 363 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged on 1 November 1817, in consequence of ‘a very severe wound from a musket ball at Waterloo by which both the bones of the left arm were fractured, with great consequent inability.’ He lived to claim the M.G.S. for Toulouse and died on 13 April 1850, aged 59.

Sold with copied discharge papers.