Sergeant John Nisbitt, Royal Horse Artillery, who served in Captain Mercer’s ‘G’ Troop at Waterloo

Waterloo 1815 (Serjeant John Nisbitt, Royal Horse Artillery.) fitted with replacement silver clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £2400-2800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Glendining, February 1919; Spink 1937; Needes Collection, Glendining, May 1940.

John Nisbitt was born in Berwick and enlisted into the Royal Horse Artillery on 14 May 1801, aged 18. He served for 15 years 321 days plus 2 years service for the battle of Waterloo, where he served in Captain Mercer’s ‘G’ Troop. He was discharged at Woolwich on 31 March 1817, being unfit for further service.

Sold with copied discharge papers. For full details of ‘G’ Troop’s services at Waterloo see General Cavalié Mercer’s Journal of the Waterloo Campaign.