Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (James Dawson, 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1,600-£2,000

Glendining’s, April 1920, when sold without clip or suspension.

James Dawson was born in Leeds and enlisted into the Grenadier Guards on 13 January 1803. He served 15 years 14 days and was discharged on 26 January 1816, in consequence of ‘a disabled hand, wound from a musket ball at Waterloo’. He was then aged 37 years, a clothier by trade, and had served in Lieutenant-Colonel Cooke’s Company at Waterloo. (Men of the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo and Beyond, by Barbara J. Chambers, refers).