Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines

The Peninsula pair awarded to Captain Charles Eaton, 2nd Battalion, 95th Foot, severely wounded at the battle of Nivelle in 1814

Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Chas. Eaton, Subn. 95th Rifles); Waterloo 1815 (Captain C. Eaton, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, minor surface marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £4000-5000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Ex Payne Collection 1910.

Charles Eaton entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Garrison Battalion on 4 December 1806, and exchanged into the 95th Rifles on 5 February 1807. He accompanied the 2nd Battalion in the disastrous Walcheren Expedition of 1809, and subsequently proceeded to the Peninsula where he took part in numerous actions in Spain and France. Promoted to Captain on 21 April 1814, he was severely wounded in the attack on the enemy positions on La Petite La Rhune during the battle of Nivelle on 10 November that year. Eaton commanded a Company of the 2nd Battalion at the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. He was in receipt of a pension of one hundred pounds per annum, commencing December 1822, was placed on the half-pay of the 10th Foot on 13 August 1823, at his own request from ill health. Captain Eaton ‘afterwards had a paralytic stroke supposed to have arisen from the wound as per certificate from the surgeon of the Regiment sent to Lord Palmerston in 1823.’ He died at Eton, Buckinghamshire, on 22 November 1860.