WATERLOO MEDAL FOUND

Dunstan Times, Issue 1245, 8 January 1886, Page 3

WATERLOO MEDAL FOUND

An extremely rare and curious military medal was recently found under the kitchen on the premises of E. B. Chapman, at No. 81 President street. On one side it has the words : “ For courage, good conduct, and faithful service Hindostan, 71st -Highland Light Infantry. Ten years’service.” On the other side are the words: “Peninsula, RoleU, Yimiera, Vittoria, Almaraz, Nive. Pyrenees, Orthes, Waterloo, Fuentes ll’Oaor"

The medal is made of corartosition metal, and is , aboat one aod a-half inches ia diameter. Above and below the words “71st Highland Light Infanhy” are a crown and a hunting hprn respectively, and on the other side is an oval shaped figure enclosing the cross of St. Andrew, beside which is s'anding a barefooted pilgrim, the lieauty of whose visage has been desire jed by the abrasion ot the metal and the lapse of time. As may be inferred from the names ot Vitt ria, Vitniera, and Waterloo, the oiiginal possessor of the medal was one who followed the English flig through the Spanish Peninsular in the war which endedat Waterloo in 1814. The other ie'end of the medal indicates that the battle scarred Highlander won newhonoured laurels in a later service in East India.

How the medal got to Charleston would be hard to divine, but it is evidently a genuine military relic. It tells a very eloquent tale, and it is the mute historian of »n old soldier’s proud record in |>e.ice and in war. it resembles many good things of fiction and romance only in the respect that it is anonymous. The kilted warrior left everything but bis name to tell the story.