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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 655

40th Somersetshire Regiment of Foot Soldierly Merit Medal, silver, obverse, a central Sphinx with 'EGYPT' below, and laurel wreath surround, and a scroll engraved '40th Somersetshire Regt. Foot', reverse, central inscription, 'For Soldierly Merit, 1815' and, engraved on scroll below, 'Will. Wooley', 41mm., claw, ring, loop and straight-bar suspension, nearly very fine

Listed in Balmer [R320]; ex-Gaskell 1911 and Loxley 1949 collections.

William Wooley's Waterloo Medal is known to survive; it first appeared at Glendining's in February 1901 and has since been sold at auction on several occasions.





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Sold for
£520