Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Waterloo 1815 (Q-.Master James Palmer, 2nd Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with replacement silver clip and steel ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £2,400-£2,800

Payne Collection 1911; Glendining’s, November 1940, August 1945, and Oakley Collection, July 1953.

James Palmer joined the Litchfield Volunteer infantry as a Lieutenant on 21 April 1807, and was promoted Captain in the Worcester Local Militia on 2 May 1809. He entered the regular service on 10 November 1809, at the age of 39, being appointed Quarter-Master to the 2nd Light Battalion, King’s German Legion on 18 November following. He served in the Peninsula and South of France from March 1811 to April 1814, being present at Albuhera, the 2nd siege of Badajoz, Vittoria, Tolosa, St Etienne, and Bayonne. He also served the campaign in the Netherlands in 1814, the campaign of 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo, where the 2nd Light Battalion K.G.L. were particularly distinguished in the defence of La Haye Sainte. Palmer retired on the reduction of the Legion, 24 February 1816, on half-pay, and chose to remain in London rather than go to the Kingdom of Hannover to join the army being re-established there. He died at Brompton, London, on 12 November 1831, aged 60.

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