Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Waterloo 1815 (Daniel Cahill, 2nd Batt. 30th Reg. Foot) original steel clip and later ring suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, nearly very fine £1400-1600

Daniel Cahill enlisted into the 30th Foot in 1808, and is shown on the musters as serving variously in Spain and Portugal between 1810 and 1812. He was present at Waterloo in Captain John Powell’s Company and is confirmed on the musters as being wounded. The diarist Ensign Edward Macready served in the same Company and wrote of the inability of the French cavalry to break the British infantry square: “Here come these fools again,” growled the 30th rank and file as they prepared to pour a destructive fire on the advancing French cuirassiers, which invariably emptied many saddles and sent the remainder from whence they came.’ Daniel Cahill was discharged on 2 May 1817. Sold with some copied research.