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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 201

The Regimentally Unique M.G.S. and Waterloo ´Pair´ to Captain W.H. Armstrong, 19th Light Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir John Vandeleur for the Peninsula Campaign and also at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (W. Armstrong, Lieut. 19th. Lt. Dragns. & A.D.C.); Waterloo 1815 (Capt. Wm. Armstrong, 19th Lt. Dragoons. A.D.C.), with contemporary silver eyelet and straight bar suspension, last contemporarily renamed in engraved upright serif capitals, very fine, both with original ribands (2) Estimate £ 3,500-4,500 Captain William Henry Armstrong commissioned Cornet 19th Light Dragoons, 1809, and advanced Lieutenant in June of the following year; served as ADC to Major-General Sir John Vandeleur (to whom he was related), September 1811-April 1814; he was present in that capacity at Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive and at the Siege of Bayonne; ADC to Vandeleur at Waterloo, where the latter commanded the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and by the end of the day had succeeded to the command of the entire cavalry; advanced Captain (Half Pay) Royal African Corps, August 1819; Armstrong resided at Farney Castle, Thurles, Tipperary, which had been in the family since 1660, and on the death of Vandeleur in 1849, he inherited the Squadron Guidons of the old 19th Light Dragoons. The main beneficiary from the sale of this lot will be the charity Help for Heroes. Please see www.helpforheroes.org.uk for more information.

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£7,000