Pair: Private Allen Hewson, 10th Hussars

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Allen Hewson, 10th Hussars); Waterloo 1815 (Allen Hewson, 10th Royal Reg. Hussars) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, small distortion to first clasp on M.G.S., light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £3,600-£4,400

Sotheby, March 1881, and July 1897.

Allen/Allan Hewson was born in the Parish of Aston, near Birmingham, and enlisted there for the 10th Hussars on 4 April 1805, aged 19, a brass founder by trade. He served 25 years 64 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged at Brighton on 26 May 1828, aged 42, ‘being worn out from length of service’, conduct as a soldier ‘excellent’.

Sold with copied discharge papers.