Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo Medal awarded to Captain Robert Dudgeon, 1st Foot or Royal Scots, who was severely wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815

Waterloo 1815 (Capt. Rob. Dudgeon, 3rd. Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £6,000-£8,000

Glendining’s, January 1926; Hamilton-Smith Collection, Glendining’s, March 1927; Elson Collection, Glendining’s, February 1963.

Robert Dudgeon was appointed Lieutenant in the 1st Foot on 12 February 1805, and was promoted to Captain on 30 July 1812. He served with the 3rd Battalion in the Peninsula in March and April 1814, including the investment of Bayonne, and in the Waterloo campaign of 1815, where he was severely wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June. Captain Dudgeon died whilst serving in the island of Antigua on 28 September 1827. An oil of Captain Robert Dudgeon painted in 1812 can be found on the internet.

The 3rd Battalion, 1st Foot (Royal Scots), suffered very heavy casualties of 362 officers and men at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; in fact, no Regiment suffered higher casualties amongst its officers, as a percentage, than the Royal Scots, in killed and wounded, only four of its thirty-seven combatant officers remaining unwounded.