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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 19

(x) Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Kisbie. 1st Reg. Dragoon. Guards.), with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, good fine

Thomas Kisbie was born around 1775 at Barnwell, Oundle, Northampton. He enlisted for the Dragoon Guards at Huntingdon on 24 January 1796, aged 21 years, for unlimited service. A breeches maker, he is recorded as 5 feet 10 ¾ inches in stature, with dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a fresh complexion.

He served in total 25 years and 222 days with the Colours, 16 years and 35 days as Private and 9 years and 187 days as a Corporal, and is recorded as wounded during the Battle of Waterloo. He was entitled to an allowance for kit lost on the battlefield to the value of £1-17-6. On that famous day Captain Alexander Kennedy Clark captured the Imperial Eagle of the French 105th Line Infantry Regiment.

Discharged at Ballinrobe, Ireland, on 2 September 1821, Kisbie's papers note that his general conduct as a Soldier was 'good' and that he was leaving the service on account of a reduction and chronic catarrh; sold with copied service record.


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Sold for
£2,100

Starting price
£1100