Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private William Woodley, 7th Hussars

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Orthes, Toulouse (William Woodley, 7th Light Dragoons.); Waterloo 1815 (William Woodley, 7th Regiment Hussars) fitted with replacement silver straight bar suspension, the first with light contact marks, otherwise good very fine, the second with edge bruising and contact marks, fine (2) £3,000-£4,000

William Woodley was born in the Parish of Latney, Oxford, and attested for the 7th Hussars at Reading on 11 October 1809, aged 20. He ‘served in Spain and France in the year 1814, was at Waterloo and with the Army of Occupation in France till the year 1818.’ He was discharged due to chronic rheumatism on 9 August 1832, with 24 years 303 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo, where he served in Captain Verner’s Troop. His conduct was that ‘of a good and efficient soldier.’

Sold with copied discharge papers.