WATERLOO MEDAL FOUND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1213, 13 January 1886, Page 5

WATERLOO MEDAL FOUND.

_ v > An,extrem'ely rare and curious military, ! medal wW' recently found under the"' kitchen' on the premises of E. B. Chapman, at No. 81 President jrftreet. Ori'one side it- has the words: '.'F>r courage, good conduct, and faithful service. Hindo-» stan, 71st Highland Light Infantry. Ten years' service." Ou the other side are the words : " Peninsula, Roleia, "Vimiera, Vittoria, Almaraz, Niye, Pyrenees, Orthes, Waterloo, Fnentes D'Onor." " * ' ' The medal is made of co « n position metal, _ r •and is about one and a-half inches in diameter. Above and below the' words :'7lst: '7lst Highland Light Infantry" are a crown and a hunting born respectively, and on the other side is an oval shaped ■ figure enclosing the cross of St. Andrew, beside which is standing a barefooted pil-' grim, the beauty of whose visage has been destroyed by the abrasion of the metal and the lapse of time A3 may be inferred from the names of Uittoria, Vimiera, and Waterloo, the original possessor of the medal was ono whe followed the English flag through the Spanish Peninsula in the war which ended at Waterloo in 1814. The other legend of the medal indicates that the battle scarrep 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, an it is the mute historian of an old soldier's proud record in peace 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 his name to tell the story.