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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 153

Waterloo 1815 (Lieutenant V. Webb, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine, with original steel clip and later silver straight bar and wire suspension

Major Vere Webb was commissioned Lieutenant, 95th Foot, December 1813; he 'served with the Rifle Brigade during the campaigns of 1814 and 1815 in Holland, the Netherlands, and France, including both the actions at Merxem, bombardment of Antwerp, and battle of Waterloo, at which last he was slightly wounded' (Hart's Army List 1851 refers); Webb served in Captain J.G. McCollough's company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815 (erroneously listed with the initial 'N' on the latest published transcription of medal roll); served as Adjutant, Royal Cardigan Rifles Militia, 1831-1851, retiring in the latter year; died in 1875, and is buried in Locksbrook Road Cemetery, Bath.

V. Webb was the brother of Captain J.W. Webb, and the nephew of Sir John Webb.

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