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Lot 784
Waterloo Medal 1815 with replacement clasp and ribbon bar, medal engraved to Lieutenant W S Smith 10th Royal Regt Hussars. During his career Captain William Slayter Smith received a sabre cut in the head and a pistol shot through the body in the famous charge by the 13th Light Dragoons at Campo Mayor 25 March 1811, he was again wounded in 1812. He later saved Lieut Gordon of the 7th Hussars on 17 June 1815 in Belgium from being killed or captured. Lieut Smith was directly involved in the capture of General Lauriston, aide-de-camp to Napoleon. He died at Ripon on 18 July 1865 aged 72. Note: His original Waterloo Medal was sold by DNW 5 April 2006. It is known that Officers could have two of the same medal as they were issued unnamed, an original that would be worn on special occasions and a second or third which would be worn while on service in case the first got lost or damaged. This example is original but engraved and not impressed, well polished as worn. An interesting piece. Fair/Fine Sold a/f
Lot 840
WW2 Casualty group to P/X 2922EA Richard Dodds Milburn RNR, Died 15/3/1942 HMS Vortigern. From Willington Quay, Wallsend, Northumberland. Sunk off Cromer while defending a coastal convoy attack by E-Boats, torpedoed by E-Boat S104 and sank with the loss of 110 lives. Medals - 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal, original named Casualty Slip, and small Minesweeping Anti-Submarine badge.
Lot 97
Baltic Medal 1856 unnamed as issued together with an original hand written journal (HMS Satellite 18/7/1865 to 22/9/1865) and copied research relating to Commander William E. Miller. Born Dennington, Suffolk. 'Miller W.E. Naval Cadet HMS Caesar, in Baltic during Russian War 1855 (Baltic Medal) was Sub-Lieut of HMS Conqueror, when that ship was wrecked, Dec 1861 on Rum Caz, Bahama Islands; was sent by Capt Sotheby CB with news of wreck to Nepau, and to fetch assistance, and was thanked by that officer at the Court Martial for his services; when 1st Lieut of HMS Spiteful, SE Coast America, received the thanks of the Spanish Government, and a case a nautical instruments for his services in the rescue of HMCM Frigate Resolution from a dangerous position off the Sea Lion Islands, and safely towing her to Stanley Harbour, Falkland Islands, she having lost rudder and sternpost'. GVF few tiny edge nicks. (1)
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