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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 299

Waterloo 1815 (Lt. Coll. Thos. Aird Royl. Waggon Train.), officially re-impressed in MGS style, edge bruise, very fine, with steel clip and silver straight bar suspension

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Aird, born Maybole, Ayrshire, December 1760; Commissioned Cornet, 2nd Dragoons, August 1794; served under the Duke of York on the Continent, 1794-5; promoted Lieutenant, 1799; Captain, Royal Waggon Train, May 1800; served in the Expedition to Hanover, 1805, and in the Peninsular; promoted Major, October 1808; appointed Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, June 1814; Commanded the Royal Waggon Train during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; died, Sunderland, November 1839.

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500