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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 192

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Duncan M'Grigor. 42nd or R.H.Reg. Infantry.), with contemporary swivel silver straight bar suspension engraved 'Peninsula', edge bruising, nearly very fine

Corporal Duncan McGrigor, born Callander, Perthshire, 1771; enlisted in the 73rd Foot, August 1789; discharged, January 1793; re-enlisted in the 42nd Royal Highlanders, June 1811; served with Captain Murdoch McLaine's Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815, and severely wounded in the left leg at Quatre Bras, 16.6.1815; discharged, June 1820.

Provenance: Stewart Gager Collection 2003.

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