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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 163

Pair: Colour Sergeant W. Bowman, 42nd Royal Highlanders, Wounded at Toulouse, 10.4.1814
Military General Service 1793-1814, four clasps, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (W. Bowman, Serjeant, 42nd. Foot), with contemporary top silver riband bar, this engraved '42nd. Royl. Highd. Regt.'; Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Bowman. 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry), unit partially enhanced in engraved serif capitals, with contemporary fixed silver straight bar suspension, the reverse of which engraved 'Quater [sic] Bras 16th. June 1815.', MGS very fine, the Waterloo worn, therefore fine (2)

32 Colour Sergeant William Bowman, born Aberdeen, 1794; enlisted in the Royal Highlanders, August 1812; served with the 1st Battalion in the Peninsula; wounded by a gun shot to the right arm at the Battle of Toulouse, 10.4.1814; promoted Corporal, April 1815; served in Brevet Major Murdoch McLaine's Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; promoted Sergeant, May 1817; discharged with the rank of Colour Sergeant, November 1834, after 24 years and 95 days with the Colours; died, February 1866.

Provenance: Major Samson Collection, Glendining, June 1991

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