Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo medal awarded to Captain Alexander Home, a Scotsman serving with the 2nd Light Battalion, King’s German Legion, who was an Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B., commanding the 5th British Brigade (2/30th, 33rd, 2/69th and 2/73rd Regiments) which held the British centre throughout the day and was in the hottest part of the action

Waterloo 1815 (Captain Alex. Home 2nd Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and silver bar suspension, good very fine £4,000-£5,000

Whitaker Collection 1908.

Alexander Home was one of many Scotchmen who had joined the King’s German Legion and served as a non-commissioned officer in the 2nd Light Battalion during the campaign in Hanover in 1805. He was appointed Ensign in the 2nd Light Battalion on 5 February 1806, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 18 July 1809. He served in the Baltic campaign of 1807-08; in the Peninsula, August 1808 to January 1809, at Vigo; at Walcheren in 1809; in the Peninsula, April 1811 to October 1812, including the 2nd siege of Badajoz; in Northern Germany and the Netherlands in 1814, the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo, at which battle he was Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, Colonel Commandant of the 2nd Light Battalion. He died at Hanover on 12 October 1821, as a Captain in the Hanoverian Rifle Guards.