A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Corporal John Green, 1st Royal Dragoons, wounded in the breast at Waterloo, the ball being extracted 16 months later

Waterloo 1815 (Corporal John Green, 1st or Royal Dragoons.) neatly plugged at 6 o’clock and fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, some pitting and polished, good fine £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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John Green was born in the Parish of St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, and enlisted for the 1st Dragoons at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 20 September 1806, at the age of 15 years. He served five years in Spain and Portugal, and at the battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded ‘with a musket ball through left breast, extracted 16 months after at Ipswich’. He was promoted to Corporal on 25 April 1815, and to Sergeant on 26 November 1820, but reduced to Private in October 1829. He became a Corporal once more in November 1831 and was promoted to Sergeant again in February 1838. Sergeant Green was finally discharged on 25 June 1838, aged 47, a Blacksmith by trade. Sold with copied attestation and discharge papers.