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Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. J. G. Ogle, 33rd Regiment Foot) fitted with original steel clip and silver bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £2000-2500
James Gordon Ogle was a member of an old Wexford family and had been appointed Lieutenant in the 33rd Regiment on 17 March 1814. He was severely wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815, when the Square of the 33rd, which had been formed on rising ground, suffered so severely from French artillery fire. The regiment had four officers severely wounded, and three slightly wounded at Quatre Bras. James Ogle died as a lieutenant in the regiment, at Hull, on 12 September 1817, aged 26. He was buried with military honours in Trinity Church, Hull. Sold with a related volume, Wild Flowers of Poetry, by Lieutenant Thomas Acres Ogle, Dublin 1865.
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