Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Captain Gore Brown, Royal Foot Artillery.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better £3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Sotheby, April 1910.

Thomas Gore Browne was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Foot Artillery on 23 February 1801; 1st Lieutenant, 19 November 1802; 2nd Captain, 1 February 1808; Captain, 4 September 1823; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 July 1836; Colonel, 9 November 1846.

He served in the Walcheren expedition and was present at the siege of Flushing. At the battle of Waterloo he served in Major George W. Unett’s Brigade, which was at Hal with Sir Charles Colville’s Division, and afterwards at the siege of Cambrai and with the Army of Occupation until November 1818. He served at Jamaica 1829-31, and commanded the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar 1839-44. Colonel Gore Browne died at Southampton on 23 January 1854, aged 69, and is buried in the Old Common Cemetery, Southampton. There is also a memorial to him at the Sandpits Cemetery, Gibraltar.