Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver Thomas Calder, Royal Artillery Drivers

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes (Thos. Calder, Arty. Driver); Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Calder, Royal Artill. Drivers.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, suspension reaffixed on the first, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (2) £3,000-£4,000

Thomas Calder was born in the Parish of Barony, Glasgow. He served with “C” Troop, Royal Artillery Drivers in the Peninsula, attached to Ross’s “A” Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, and at Waterloo in Captain W. H. Humphrey’s “H” Troop R.A. Drivers. Admitted to Chelsea Hospital out-pension on 14 December 1827, ‘ruptured’, aged 31, having served 15 years 153 days, including 2 years for Waterloo.