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Waterloo 1815 (Corp. John Harris, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot) fitted with replacement steel clip and silver bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine and better £3000-3500

John Harris was born at Rambury, Wiltshire, and enlisted into the 2nd 66th Regiment on 12 June 1804. He volunteered to the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles on 23 August 1806, and served with the battalion in the expedition to Copenhagen in the following year. In December 1813 he went with the expedition to Holland as part of a provisional battalion of 95th Rifles, comprising one company each from 1/95th and 2/95th, and two companies 3/95th, the whole commanded by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Cameron of the 1/95th. The subsequent general attack on Bergen op Zoom was not a success, and the British were repelled with heavy losses. Harris and the rest of his company rejoined the 2/95th at Paris in April 1815, and went on to fight at the battle of Waterloo. He was promoted Sergeant on 25 June 1815, and continued to serve with the Army of Occupation in France until September 1817 when he returned to England. He was discharged on 10 November 1817, ‘his hearing being impaired and being worn out in the service’. Sold with copy discharge papers and muster details.