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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 241

Pair: Sergeant W. Edmonds, Royal Horse Artillery
Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Toulouse (W. Edmonds, Serjt. Royal H. Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (William Edmund [sic], Bomb. Royal Horse Artillery.), with original steel clip, this loose, and split ring suspension, traces of lacquer, heavy contact marks, therefore good fine or better (2)

Sergeant William Edmonds, born Lanarkshire, January 1789; enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery, January 1805; served in the Peninsula and with Lieutenant-Colonel Gardiner's 'E' Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815 (listed as William Edmund for Waterloo on the latest published transcript of both the MGS and Waterloo Rolls; the latter Roll also states 'Transferred to 'G' Troop', the Troop which Captain Mercer commanded during the actual Battle); discharged, February 1829, after 24 years and 59 days' service.

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