Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 372

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£3,000

Waterloo 1815 (Ensign Geo. Stainforth, 23rd Regiment Foot) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £1200-1500

George Stainforth was commissioned Ensign in the 23rd R.W.F. on 29 July 1813. He served in No. 2 Company (Captain Strangway) at Waterloo, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 19 July 1815. He was declared supernumerary to establishment in February 1817 and placed on half pay the following March. He was still on the half pay when he died at Nivelle in Belgium on 27 April 1860.