Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Henry Townsend, 1st Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, a few very minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine and better £2,000-£2,400

Purchased Seaby, May 1980.

Henry Townsend was born in the Parish of Little Hustead, Sussex, and enlisted for the 1/95th Foot on 3 April 1809. He was discharged on 3 April 1816, on completion of his limited period of service. Total service 9 years, including 2 years for Waterloo where he served in Captain C. Beckwith’s Company and is shown on the roll as having been wounded. He was admitted to Out-pension on 29 July 1819.

Sold with copied discharge papers.