Waterloo Medal for sale to  private Rogerson, Queens Light Dragoons.The medal with steel clip and straight steel suspension. Complete with ribbon.

Condition report: The Waterloo Medal in excellent condition, with good definition remaining, and a contemporary steel, 'straight-style' suspension. Replacement ribbon.

Note: The Queens Light Dragoons & The Battle of Waterloo: when news of Napoleon's escape from Elba reached England, three squadrons of the 16th Queens Light Dragoons (The Queens), were deployed to France where they joined Wellington's Peninsula Army. The regiment was instrumental in  covering the retreat of the Allied army from Quatre Bras on June 17th. Furthermore, at The Battle of Waterloo, they made several desperate charges to repulse the  enemy cavalry and managed to cover the withdrawal of the Heavy Brigade after the latter charged too far from its own lines.

The 16th  marched to Paris after the Battle of Waterloo, and remained in France until December 1815.

The regiment was the British Army's second-ever light cavalry regiment, raised in imitation of the European light cavalry regiments Britain had fought against and alongside early in the 18th century.