Corporal John Hall, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who was wounded in the thigh and head at Waterloo

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. John Hall, 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and polished, otherwise nearly very fine £2000-2500

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

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Provenance: Glendining, June 1987.

John Hall was born in the Parish of Brampton, Cumberland, and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Kilbeggan, County West Meath, on 6 April 1814, aged 20. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 May 1815, and served in that rank, in Lieutenant-Colonel Colquit’s Company, at Waterloo, where he was wounded in the thigh and head. Promoted to Sergeant in October 1818, he was reduced to Private in December 1824, being promoted to Corporal again in August 1829 and January 1833, having been reduced once more in May 1831. He was discharged on 3 September 1836, in consequence of rheumatism, his papers noting, in addition to his wounds, that he also served in Holland in 1814 and with the army at Paris until 1816. Sold with copied discharge papers.