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The Waterloo medal awarded to Private Thomas Anderson, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) who...
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The Waterloo medal awarded to Private Thomas Anderson, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) who served with the ‘Union Brigade’ in their famous heavy cavalry charge at Waterloo which destroyed five French infantry brigades and inflicted some 5,000 casualties
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Anderson, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £3,600-£4,400
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Thomas Anderson was born at Dalkeith, Edinburgh, in 1768, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons on 10 April 1793, aged 25 years, a candle-maker by trade. He served in Captain Thomas Fenton’s Troop at Waterloo and was at that time probably the oldest man in the regiment to take part in the Greys’ famous charge, being then 46 years of age. He was discharged at Canterbury on 13 October 1816, in consequence of chronic rheumatism and asthma contracted in the service, ‘a very good man & a faithful soldier’, and received an Out Pension of 1s halfpenny per diem. On leaving the army he returned to Dalkeith, to resume his trade as a candle-maker, where he met and married Agnes Bennet and had a still born child in May 1820. Thomas Anderson died aged 56 from a vomiting of blood on 23 May 1824, and is buried in Dalkeith Old Churchyard beside his still born child.

Sold with copied discharge papers.
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Anderson, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £3,600-£4,400
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Thomas Anderson was born at Dalkeith, Edinburgh, in 1768, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons on 10 April 1793, aged 25 years, a candle-maker by trade. He served in Captain Thomas Fenton’s Troop at Waterloo and was at that time probably the oldest man in the regiment to take part in the Greys’ famous charge, being then 46 years of age. He was discharged at Canterbury on 13 October 1816, in consequence of chronic rheumatism and asthma contracted in the service, ‘a very good man & a faithful soldier’, and received an Out Pension of 1s halfpenny per diem. On leaving the army he returned to Dalkeith, to resume his trade as a candle-maker, where he met and married Agnes Bennet and had a still born child in May 1820. Thomas Anderson died aged 56 from a vomiting of blood on 23 May 1824, and is buried in Dalkeith Old Churchyard beside his still born child.

Sold with copied discharge papers.
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The Waterloo medal awarded to Private Thomas Anderson, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys) who served with the ‘Union Brigade’ in their famous heavy cavalry charge at Waterloo which destroyed five French infantry brigades and inflicted some 5,000 casualties
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Anderson, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £3,600-£4,400
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Thomas Anderson was born at Dalkeith, Edinburgh, in 1768, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons on 10 April 1793, aged 25 years, a candle-maker by trade. He served in Captain Thomas Fenton’s Troop at Waterloo and was at that time probably the oldest man in the regiment to take part in the Greys’ famous charge, being then 46 years of age. He was discharged at Canterbury on 13 October 1816, in consequence of chronic rheumatism and asthma contracted in the service, ‘a very good man & a faithful soldier’, and received an Out Pension of 1s halfpenny per diem. On leaving the army he returned to Dalkeith, to resume his trade as a candle-maker, where he met and married Agnes Bennet and had a still born child in May 1820. Thomas Anderson died aged 56 from a vomiting of blood on 23 May 1824, and is buried in Dalkeith Old Churchyard beside his still born child.

Sold with copied discharge papers.
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Anderson, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £3,600-£4,400
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Thomas Anderson was born at Dalkeith, Edinburgh, in 1768, and enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons on 10 April 1793, aged 25 years, a candle-maker by trade. He served in Captain Thomas Fenton’s Troop at Waterloo and was at that time probably the oldest man in the regiment to take part in the Greys’ famous charge, being then 46 years of age. He was discharged at Canterbury on 13 October 1816, in consequence of chronic rheumatism and asthma contracted in the service, ‘a very good man & a faithful soldier’, and received an Out Pension of 1s halfpenny per diem. On leaving the army he returned to Dalkeith, to resume his trade as a candle-maker, where he met and married Agnes Bennet and had a still born child in May 1820. Thomas Anderson died aged 56 from a vomiting of blood on 23 May 1824, and is buried in Dalkeith Old Churchyard beside his still born child.

Sold with copied discharge papers.
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