PRIVATE RICHARD SMITH, 1ST REGIMENT, LIFE GUARDS. Waterloo Medal (renamed, re-engraved in
£1,150.00
PRIVATE RICHARD SMITH, 1ST REGIMENT, LIFE GUARDS. Waterloo Medal (renamed, re-engraved in a similar style to the original impressed naming, serifed block letters: RICHARD SMITH, 1ST. REGT. LIFE GUARDS.). Small pawnbroker’s mark scratched in field to rear of the Prince Regent’s bust, original steel clip and replacement steel straight bar suspender, Good Very Fine, an attractive example.
With photocopied extract from published roll and extract from original muster roll for Waterloo, both of which confirm only one Richard Smith serving with the 1st Life Guards.
The 1st Life Guards suffered 36% casualties at Waterloo.
Medal also accompanied by 2 pages photocopied service papers. Richard Smith, born Thornton, Lancashire, enlisted into the 1st Life Guards at Colne, Lancashire, on 20/1/1812 and was discharged on 10/11/1817 as a result of “having suffered from a Fistula brought on by hard riding at Waterloo, and of a crush, from his horse falling over him at Paris, and thereby impaired health.”
A fistula : an abnormal opening or void between a hollow organ and the surface of the skin.