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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 509

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Wm. Donaldson, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards.), nearly very fine, with replacement steel clip and contemporary straight bar suspension

Sergeant William Donaldson, born Dalkeith, Midlothian, 1787; enlisted in the 3rd Foot Guards, December 1811; promoted Corporal, May 1814; served with the Regiment in Lieutenant-Colonel Charles West's Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815, and was wounded in the body in the fighting in the vicinity of the beleaguered farm of Hougemount, 18.6.1815; promoted Sergeant, April 1826; served with the British intervention force in Portugal, 1827-28; discharged, April 1831, after 21 years and 107 days with the Colours.

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