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Miniature Medal: Waterloo 1815, 21.5mm, silver (Lt. J. P. Gairdner 1st. Battn. Rifs.)...
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Miniature Medal: Waterloo 1815, 21.5mm, silver (Lt. J. P. Gairdner 1st. Battn. Rifs.) contemporarily engraved naming, with steel clip and later split ring suspension, with contemporary top riband buckle, nearly very fine £400-£500 --- James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was educated at Harrow. Commissioned into the 95th Rifles, he served, without a break, in the Peninsula War from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 until the end of the War in 1814. He subsequently served in the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18 June 1815, and then as part of the Army of Occupation. He was thrice wounded on active service. Resigning his commission in December 1826, he returned to the land of his birth, and took up plantation farming, firstly in Jefferson County, Alabama, before moving to Augusta, Georgia. He died at Augusta, on 21 April 1862. Three of Gairdner’s hand-written journals from the period have survived, and are held by the National Army Museum; they have subsequently been transcribed and published as ‘The American Sharpe’, by Gareth Glover. Sold with a copy of ‘The American Sharpe’, by Gareth Glover.
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Miniature Medal: Waterloo 1815, 21.5mm, silver (Lt. J. P. Gairdner 1st. Battn. Rifs.) contemporarily engraved naming, with steel clip and later split ring suspension, with contemporary top riband buckle, nearly very fine £400-£500 --- James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was educated at Harrow. Commissioned into the 95th Rifles, he served, without a break, in the Peninsula War from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 until the end of the War in 1814. He subsequently served in the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18 June 1815, and then as part of the Army of Occupation. He was thrice wounded on active service. Resigning his commission in December 1826, he returned to the land of his birth, and took up plantation farming, firstly in Jefferson County, Alabama, before moving to Augusta, Georgia. He died at Augusta, on 21 April 1862. Three of Gairdner’s hand-written journals from the period have survived, and are held by the National Army Museum; they have subsequently been transcribed and published as ‘The American Sharpe’, by Gareth Glover. Sold with a copy of ‘The American Sharpe’, by Gareth Glover.
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