Waterloo paired with The Caledonian Asylum Silver Reward of Merit, Angus Cameron, 92nd Highlanders, Colour Sergeant of Capt Claude Alexander’s Coy at Waterloo where he received a gunshot wound to the right leg 18 June. Previously served in the Peninsula and was further wounded at the Battle of Corunna 16th Jan. 1809. In 1799 had answered the call from the chief of Clan Cameron when raising the Lochabar Fencibles serving with them in Ireland

Waterloo Medal (Serj. Angus Cameron, 1st Bat. 92nd. Highlanders) The Caledonian Asylum Silver Reward of Merit, (Angus Henry Cameron, 1827)

Colour Sergeant of Capt Alexander’s Coy at Waterloo where he received a gunshot wound to the right leg 18 June, 1815. Previously served in the Peninsula and was further wounded at the Battle of Corunna 16th Jan. 1809.

Angus Cameron was  born , Kilmonigaig, Fort William c. 1780. In 1799 had answered the call from the chief of Clan Cameron when raising the Lochabar Fencibles enlisting with them on 1st Jany. 1799, serving with them in Ireland.

Donald Cameron of Lochiel, the 22nd clan chief was appointed colonel of a Fencible corps to be raised in Scotland, with the designation of the Lochaber Fencible Highlanders. The clan, and  all Lochaber, immediately responded to the call , and in a very short time upwards of 560 Highlanders were enrolled. The number of recruits was increased to 800 by the exertions of officers in other parts of the country, and the whole were assembled at Falkirk in May, 1799.

In 1800 the regiment was moved to Ireland, returning to Scotland in 1802, and was disbanded at Linlithgow in the month of July of that year. by which time many of those serving had enlisted into the regular army.

Cameron took his discharge from the Lochabar Fencibles prior to disbandment for service in the  92nd. from. 25 May 1802 serving one year as a Private , two as Corporal and the remaining twelve as Sergeant. His papers confirm his wounds at Corunna and Waterloo on the 18th June. They further state he was discharged in Feb. 1816 and that he was Colour Sergeant in Captain Claude Alexander’s Company.

The Caledonian Asylum was launched by members of the Highland Society of London in 1815 to provide a home and education for Scottish children in London who had been orphaned in the Napoleonic Wars. John Galt, the novelist, became secretary to the Asylum in 1815. The first Asylum was at 16 Cross Street,  Hatton Garden, London from December 1819. In 1827 the first stone was laid for  purpose built accommodation at Copenhagen Fields, Islington which opened in 1828. It may well be Cameron’s Merit Award stemmed for service in the raising for  this later event

Nicely conditioned and naming clear throughout. A fine Highlander’s pair of medals