Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Richard Hasler, 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards) fitted with rather crude replacement silver clip and bar suspension, edge bruising and a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Richard Hasler was born at Great Waltham, Essex, in 1794. A blacksmith by trade, he enlisted into the 1st Foot Guards at Portsmouth on 13 July 1813, a volunteer from the East Essex Militia, aged 19 years. He was taken prisoner at Bergen-op-Zoom, not wounded, and later released to re-join his company, and served with Lieutenant-Colonel Colquitt’s Company in the 2nd Battalion at Waterloo. He was discharged on a reduction in the regiment on 26 October 1815. Sold with some research.