Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. F. Dixon, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with replacement rings for suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £5,000-£7,000

Glendining’s, April 1928 and March 1932.

Francis Dixon was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 95th Foot, from Ensign in the Cambridgeshire Militia, on 12 April 1809, and subsequently 1st Lieutenant on 11 January 1810. He served in the Peninsula with the 2nd 95th from May 1812 to April 1814, and was present at Salamanca, San Millan, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Vera, Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Tarbes, where he was severely wounded ’in action with the enemy’ on 20 March 1814. He also served at Walcheren in 1809, and was present with the 2nd Battalion at Waterloo in 1815. He was placed on half-pay 80th Foot on 11 December 1817, and died in Jersey on 30 October 1832. He is buried in St Saviour’s Churchyard, St Helier, Jersey.