Waterloo 1815 (Maurice Rabbitt, 2nd Batt. 59th Reg. Foot.) original steel clip and ring suspension, minor edge bruising, good very fine £1000-1400

Maurice Rabbitt was born in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. A Butcher by occupation and having served in the Kildare Militia for 14 years, attaining the rank of Serjeant, he enlisted into the 59th Foot on 17 May 1809, aged 35 years. With the 59th Foot he served in the Walcheren Expedition. During the Waterloo Campaign he served in Captain L. A. de Noe’s Company, 2nd Battalion 59th Foot (listed as ‘Thos. Rabbitt’ in the published roll). The battalion formed part of Lieutenant-General Colville’s 4th Division which, on the day of the battle, was situated to the far right of the allied army and took no part in the actual fighting. Private Rabbitt was discharged on 24 April 1816 as a consequence of ‘rheumatism & varicose veins contracted on service in Walcheren’. Sold with copied discharge papers.