Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Robert Smallie 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, small edge bruise and very light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and scarce thus £3,600-£4,400

Buckland, Dix & Wood, May 1993.

Robert Smallie (also variously spelt Smellie and Smillie) was born in the Parish of Old Monkland, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, in 1787. He enlisted into the Scots Greys on 20 June 1806, aged 19, a weaver by trade, and served 12 years 116 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, at which battle he served in Captain James Poole’s No. 4 Troop. He was discharged at Canterbury on 13 October 1816, in consequence of ‘first finger of his right hand being anchylosed from the kick of a horse’ and was noted to be ‘a steady good soldier’. He was admitted to an out-pension of 6d per diem on 30 October 1816.

Sold with copied discharge papers.