A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Thomas Morsley, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who served in Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Saltoun’s Light Company at Waterloo where he was heavily engaged in defending Hougoumont

Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Morsley, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement bar suspension, heavy edge bruising and contact wear, therefore good fine £2000-2500

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

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Thomas Morsley is shown on the published roll as having served in Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Saltoun’s Light Company at Waterloo. Saltoun had four horses shot under him whilst defending Hougoumont from without (Colonel McDonell defending within). ‘Towards the close of Waterloo day he returned to his place in the line with about but one-third of the men with whom he had gone into action. He then took a prominent part in the last celebrated charge of the Guards.’