A Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals and Artefacts

Waterloo 1815 (Assist. Surgeon P. Jones, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and silver bar suspension, good very fine £2400-2800

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

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Pryce Jones served as a Hospital Mate before being appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Army on 20 April 1809, and posted to the 52nd Foot. He served with the 2nd Battalion in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809, and in the Peninsula from March 1811 to March 1812, including Sabugal and Fuentes d’Onor. He served with the 1st Battalion in the Netherlands campaign of 1814 and in the Waterloo campaign of 1815. Jones was appointed Surgeon in the 1st Foot on 7 September 1814 and placed on half-pay in March 1816. He returned to full-pay as Surgeon in the 50th Foot on 17 February 1820 and joined the regiment in Jamaica in January 1821. The 50th had arrived in Jamaica in 1819 and had suffered many losses from the ravages of yellow fever, including the commanding officer, Colonel Charles Hill, C.B., ten officers and more than 250 other ranks. Surgeon Jones was a replacement for Assistant-Surgeon Brown who had died in the previous outbreak of the fever but now he too fell victim to the fever and died on 9 December 1821.

See Lot 1 for the Gold Medal to Colonel Charles Hill, C.B.