Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant Thomas Biggs, 11th Light Dragoons

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (Thomas Biggs, Serjeant, 11th Light Dragoons.); Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Thomas Biggs, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, the first with re-affixed suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than very fine (2) £4,000-£5,000

Glendining’s, May 1920 and March 1929.

Thomas Biggs was born in the Parish of Byworth, near Petworth, Sussex, and served in the Sussex Fencibles from 30 July 1798 to 25 February 1800. He enlisted into the 11th Light Dragoons at Beverley, Yorkshire, on 15 March 1800, and was promoted to Corporal in October 1811, and to Sergeant in April 1818. He served his final 3 years 82 days in the East Indies, was discharged at Meerut on 1 October 1822, and landed at Gravesend on 3 May 1823. He was discharged on 3 June 1823, his conduct being described as ‘attentive’ and that ‘he served in Portugal in 1811 and was taken prisoner on the 2nd October 1812 at Monasterio’, this being at the commencement of the retreat from Burgos to Salamanca.

Sold with copied discharge papers.