Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Charles Avery, 1st Batt. 4th Reg. Foot.) with original steel clip and split ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800

Eugene Ursual, September 1987.

Charles Avery was born in the Parish of Stoke, near Winchester, Hampshire, and was attested for the 4th Regiment of Foot at Cove, County Cork, on 23 December 1813. He served in Captain Erskine's No. 4 Company during the Waterloo campaign from 16 to 18 June 1815, and subsequently served in the East Indies from 45 April 1819 to 1 April 1826. He was discharged at Gosport on 7 August 1827, aged 34 years, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism following the use of Mercury for venereal complaint.’ He was admitted to an out-pension of 9d per diem on 8 August 1827.

Sold with copied discharge papers.