The Waterloo Medal 1815 to Captain Thomas Macky, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, privately fitted steel

The Waterloo Medal 1815 to Captain Thomas Macky, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, privately fitted steel straight bar suspension (CAPT. THOs. MACKY, 6th or INNISKILLING DRAG.), engraved correction to name ('Y' of 'MACKY'), edge bruised and with areas of striation, obverse a little rubbed, otherwise good very fine, reverse better, toned; together with a 6th Dragoons button and a button of the 95th Foot. [3]

Thomas Macky joined the 6th Dragoons as a Lieutenant in June 1804, He was commissioned Captain by purchase on the 3rd of December 1807, and rode at the head of a Troop in the famous charge of his regiment at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Major from the 6th of July 1821, and exchanged back to Captain in July 1825.