Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (David Lawell, 3rd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and later ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £2,000-£2,600

Provenance: Galway Foley Collection 1910; Glendining’s, March 1968.

Only two companies of the 3/95th were present at the battle, making it the smallest British infantry unit at Waterloo.

David Lawell (Larvill on medal roll) served in Captain Eele’s Company of the 3rd Battalion, 95th Rifles. Sold with muster research by Judith Farrington which states:

‘David Lawell, a volunteer from the Oxford Militia, first appears as a Private in the 3rd Battalion 95th Foot on 27th April 1814. He was present at the battle of Waterloo on the 18th June 1815, serving in Captain William Eele’s Company. As there is no trace of him after 24th December 1815, it is possible that he returned home from France wounded and that he was quickly discharged, and so does not appear in the new muster-roll for 1816.’ The earlier muster rolls show that he was in Paris, 25 June-24 July, 1815, ‘absent, sick’; at Montmartre (Paris), 25 July-24 September, 1815, in ‘General Hospital’; abroad/Colchester, 25 September-24 December, 1815, ‘25 November, from Company on service. Sick at Colchester.’

Please see revised footnote