Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant G. A. F. Dawkins, 15th Hussars, who was present at the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball on 15th June, and who was wounded at Waterloo on 18th June 1815

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. G. A. F. Dawkins, 15th or King’s Reg. Hussars.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, the obverse with some light marks, otherwise good very fine and better £5,000-£7,000

George Augustus Frederick Dawkins was a peripheral member of the Dawkins family of Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. He was appointed an Ensign in the 3rd Foot Guards on 1 February 1812, and transferred in the same rank to the 15th Light Dragoons on 3 June 1813. His name appears on the list of guests invited to attend the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball at Brussells on the eve of the battle of Quatre Bras. He was wounded at Waterloo on 18 June, and was placed on half-pay on 25 June 1816. He died on 14 November 1821, aged 30 years and four days, and is named on the Family Memorial tablet in St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.