Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 27th November 2024

Lot 3

A casualty's Waterloo Medal 1815 to Private John Todd, 2nd Battalion 1st Foot Guards (Grenadier

Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2016

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Description

A casualty's Waterloo Medal 1815 to Private John Todd, 2nd Battalion 1st Foot Guards (Grenadier Guards), later bar suspension (JOHN TODD 2ND BATT. GRENAD. GUARDS.), near very fine.



(35mm diameter)

John Todd was born in Manchester in August 1787. Having served in the Derbyshire Militia he enlisted in the British Army in 1813 at the age of 28. He served at Quatre Bras and Waterloo in Lt. Colonel Sir Noel Hill's Company under Lieutenant and Captain James Nixon, and the likelihood is that he took part in the famous rout of the French Imperial Guard Grenadiers, by virtue of which the British 1st Foot Guards earned their 'Grenadier' title. Wounded in this action, he survived to be discharged to a pension in 1827 and lived until 1866.