A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot)

Waterloo 1815 (Assist. Surg. A. Stewart, 28th Regiment Foot.) fitted with replacement steel clip and silver bar suspension engraved on both sides ‘Quatre Bras 16 June 1815 / Obt. in Jamaca 20th Octr. 1837’, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £2400-3000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot).

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Alexander Stewart qualified Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Dublin, in 1812, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 6th Garrison Battalion, on 25 November 1813. Placed on half-pay, 5 February 1815, he exchanged to full pay in the 28th Foot on 9 February 1815, and served with that regiment at Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Placed on half-pay in August 1819, he exchanged to the 2nd Dragoons on 1 March 1821, and was appointed Surgeon on the Staff on 15 May 1835. He died at Falmouth in Jamaica on 20 October 1837.