Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (William Pollard, Gunner Royal Foot Artillery.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £800-£1,200

Glendining’s, June 1903; Dowell’s, April 1908; Glendining’s, April 1964.

William Pollard was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and enlisted into the third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 October 1800, aged 18, a shoemaker by trade. He served at Waterloo as a Gunner in Captain C. F. Sandham’s Brigade, Royal Foot Artillery, and was discharged at Woolwich on 30 April 1816, in consequence of ‘being judged unfit for Service by a Medical Board thro’ Rheumatism & Debility & Pensioned at One Shilling per day.’

Sold with copied discharge papers.