John Jenkinson, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards

Waterloo 1815 (John Jenkinson, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1800-2200

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

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John Jenkinson was born in the Parish of Syford, Staffordshire, and enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Birmingham on 2 October 1799, aged 18, for unlimited service. He was present at Waterloo in Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas’s Company, and was discharged on 11 October 1820, in consequence of rheumatism contracted in Flanders in 1813.

Sold with copied discharge papers.