Orders, Decorations and Medals

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Wm. Dunford, 2nd Batt. Coldstream Gds.) with steel clip and replacement ring suspension, with ornate silver top bar, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1400-1800

William Dunford was born in Tavistock, Devon. He enlisted into the Coldstream Guards at Durham on 18 October 1799, aged 17 years. With the Guards he served in the Egypt Campaign 1801 and lived to claim the M.G.S. Medal and Egypt clasp when issued in 1851. He served in Colonel The Hon. A. Abercromby’s Company, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards during the Waterloo Campaign - the company taking part in the defence of Hougoumont during the battle. Corporal Dunford was discharged on 10 May 1817, aged 34 years, as a result of rheumatism and poor sight - the latter due to service in Egypt. Upon his discharge he returned to Tavistock, being employed as a Cordwainer.

With copied discharge papers.