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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 132

Waterloo 1815 (Ensign Tho. Wedgewood, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards), with contemporary silver straight bar suspension, good fine and better, with a related miniature award, privately engraved ´Lieutt. Wedgwood. 3rd. Foot Guards.´, both housed in a fitted glazed frame Estimate £ 2,800-3,200 Colonel Thomas Josiah Wedgwood was born in 1797, the son of John Wedgwood, and the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95), the master potter; his first cousin, Charles Darwin (1809-82), was the famous naturalist and author. Commissioned Ensign, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, January 1814, he served with the 2nd Battalion as part of Lieutenant Colonel Canning´s Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.8.1815, when the Regiment suffered 42 killed and 204 wounded; Lieutenant, December 1820; Captain, December 1830. Captain Wedgwood married Anne, the daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Tyler. He died in 1860.

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