An 1815 Battle of Waterloo Medal to Sergeant William Lewis, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, who served in Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arbuthnot’s Company at Waterloo. A veteran of the 1801 Egypt Campaign and the Peninsula Battles of Talavera and Salamanca, he was invalided from service in 1817 on account of inferior and bad eye sight from service in Egypt.
Waterloo Medal 1815 (SERJ. WILLIAM LEWIS, 2nd BATT. COLDSTREAM GDS.)
Condition: Fitted with replacement silver hinge and straight-bar suspension, Good Very Fine.
William Lewis was born in Shrewsbury, Salop, in 1780 and enlisted for service in the Coldstream Guards in 1799. He was present with the 2nd Battalion, under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby, in the defeat of the French troops in Egypt in 1801 and then saw service in the Peninsula, bring present at the Battles of Talavera and Salamanca. Lewis served in Lt. Col. R. Arbuthnot’s Company during the Battle of Waterloo and he was discharged from service into the Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1817, on account of ‘inferior and bad eye sight from service in Egypt.’