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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 304

Waterloo 1815 (William Emery, 1st. Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.), attempt to obliterate naming, edge bruise, good fine, with later silver loop and ring suspension

Private William Emery, born Bridgewater, Somerset, September 1792; enlisted in the 52nd Foot, September 1806; 'served one year in Sicily, five years and three months in the Peninsula, four years and four months in France, and eight years and four months in North America; present in every action, siege, and skirmish in which the Regiment was engaged to the close of the Peninsula War, wounded severely in the arm at the Battle of Nivelle, present [in Captain Charles Diggle's Company] at Waterloo' (Service Papers refer); discharged, November 1832, after 24 years and 61 days' service.

Note: Emery's name does not appear on the latest published transcript of the Military General Service Medal Roll, suggesting that he either died before 1848, or never claimed his medal.

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