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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 28

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. David Kerr, 1st Batt. 79th Reg. Foot.), replacement steel clip and buckle suspension, suspension very slack, minor contact marks, good fine

David Kerr served during the Hundred Days' Campaign as a Corporal with Captain J. Campbell's Company, 79th (Cameron) Highlanders. Part of Major-General Sir James Kempt's Brigade in Picton's 5th Division, the Camerons reinforced Wellington's position at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815, withstanding numerous cavalry charges.

Deployed on the left-centre of the Allied line at Waterloo two days later, the 79th were exposed to the full force of Napoleon's 'Grand Battery'. The regiment nevertheless offered stout resistance to D'Erlon's Corps when it attacked at 2 p.m. From an original complement of 46 officers and 656 men, the Camerons lost 6 officers and 57 men killed, 25 officers and 390 men wounded.

Kerr appears on the Military General Service Medal roll as a Sergeant in the 79th, with clasp entitlement for Salamanca, Nivelle, Nive and Toulouse. He appears to have been demoted before Waterloo. He received his pension on 31 December 1823.


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