Miniature Medals

Pair: Sergeant-Major William Ashenden, 73rd Foot

Waterloo 1815 (William Ashenden, 2nd Batt. 73rd Reg. Foot) fitted with replacement silver clip and large rectangular silver suspension, this inscribed with battle honours ‘Seringapatam Mangalore Waterloo’; Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (W. Askenden, Serj. Major 73rd Regiment Foot. 1832) fitted with original steel clip and rectangular steel bar suspension, both fitted with silver ribbon brooch buckles, the first with contact wear, otherwise about nearly very fine, the second very fine and a rare pair (2) £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the 42nd and 73rd Regiments (Black Watch).

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Ex Murray Collection 1891 and Rev Kynaston Gaskell Collection 1943.

William Ashenden was born at Meopham, near Rochester, Kent, and enlisted at Kingston, Yorkshire, on 1 May 1811. He served with No. 1 Company at Waterloo where he was wounded in the leg. He was promoted to Corporal in February 1817, and transferred to the 1st Battalion in May 1817. He remained with the Depot for 2 years before joining the service companies of the regiment in Ceylon, in September 1819. He was promoted to Sergeant in November 1820, and to Sergeant-Major in November 1828. He served one year and three months in France and Flanders, two years in Ceylon, two years and three months at Gibraltar, two years and three months in the Island of Malta, and the remainder at Home. He was finally discharged at his own request on 13 June 1832, aged thirty-nine. His pension of 2/2d per day is recorded as being drawn in New South Wales, Australia. William Ashenden died on 9 August 1846.