Waterloo 1815 (Serj. William Baker, 1st Batt. 40th Reg. Foot.) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £2500-3000

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

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William Baker was born in Devon and served in the Royal Cornwall Militia 1797-99. He enlisted into the 40th Foot on 25 July 1799, aged 19 years, for unlimited service. He served in ‘Holland, Mediterranean, Peninsula, N. America and the Continent’, being promoted to Sergeant on 30 December 1812, transferring from the 2nd to the 1st Battalion. He was wounded in the left hand at Pamplona on 30 July 1813, and served in Captain J. Lowry's company at Waterloo. He was discharged on 20 November 1817, and lived to claim the M.G.S. medal with clasp for Vittoria. Sold with copied discharge papers.