Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. James Brown Royal Artillery Drivers.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,000-£1,400

James Brown was born in the Parish of Halstead, Essex, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 5 December 1800, aged 21. He served for 20 years 61 days, including 2 years’ allowance for Waterloo; was a Corporal from 1808; and was discharged from the Invalid Battalion R.A. at Woolwich on 30 November 1818, in consequence of ‘wounded shoulder, is by Order of the Honble Board of Ordnance placed upon the pension list from 8 December 1818 at one shilling and six pence per diem.’ He served at Waterloo in Captain Henry Lane’s “F” Troop, Royal Artillery Drivers.

Sold with copied discharge papers.