2nd Life Guards Attributed Waterloo and Military General Ser...

Hammer

£880

2nd Life Guards Attributed Waterloo and Military General Service MINIATURE Medal Pair. This pair are attributed to Captain Alexander McInnes of the 2nd Life Guards who oil painting portrait by Ramsay Richard Reinagle hangs in the National Army Museum London. Comprising: Military General Service Medal, clasp Vittoria, Waterloo Medal. These have been attractively mounted into a Spink quality Mahogany table frame. This frame would have at one time housed the full size medals and were mounted with a Victorian Life Guards pouch badge and a representation of the portrait. The miniature medals are unnamed. Frame Size 11 x 9 inches. Captain Alexander McInnes portrait is probably the most recognised of the period depicting an Officer of the Life Guards Waterloo Period. He was appointed a Cornet of the 2nd Life Guards in 1809, he became a Lieutenant in 1810 and Captain whilst serving in the Peninsula in 1813. Resigning his commission in 1814 he rejoined with the rank of Cornet and fought with the Regiment at Waterloo and took part in Uxbridge’s charge against d’Erlon’s corps. In 1821 he took the surname Nicholson by Royal Licence. He died in 1862 aged 82.