Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal William Deighton, 52nd Foot, who was wounded in the left hand at Condisa, 14 March 1811, and by a shell in the shoulder and mouth at Waterloo, 18 June 1815

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (William Deighton, 52nd Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (William Dighton, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with steel clip and later small ring suspension, edge bruising, therefore good fine, the first very fine (2) £6,000-£8,000

Greg Collection 1887; Sotheby, March 1979; Glendining’s, September 1987.

William Deighton/Dighton was born in the Parish of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was enlisted into the 52nd Foot on 17 October 1799, aged twenty-eight, a labourer by trade. He served a total of 18 years 10 months, including 2 years allowance for Waterloo, and was discharged with the rank of corporal on 3 August 1816, in consequence of ‘Gun shot wound left hand at Condisa, 14 March 1811, and by a shell in the shoulder and mouth at Waterloo, 18 June 1815.’

Sold with copied discharge papers which additionally note ‘marks of gun shot wound left hand, shoulder and mouth’, together with a quantity of copied research and a copy of Gareth Glover’s recent publication on the 52nd Foot at Waterloo.