Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Rich. Harrison, 2nd Batt. 30th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip with contemporary ring and silver bar suspension, contact marks to obverse, otherwise very fine, reverse good very fine £4,000-£5,000

Hamilton Smith Collection, Glendining’s, March 1927; Elson Collection, Glendining’s, February 1963.

Richard Harrison was first commissioned as Ensign in the 81st Foot on 11 May 1809, and transferred as Lieutenant to the 30th Foot on 11 September 1811. He served in the Peninsula from January to June 1813, and in the Netherlands in 1814. He was wounded at the battle of Waterloo and died in 1819.