WATERLOO MEDAL TO DANIEL HIGGS, 28TH REGIMENT OF FOOT

Daniel Higgs joined the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot from the Reserve on 25 June 1804 and appears on the Regimental muster with the depot the following month. Higgs served on the Peninsula and is noted on a roll for the Battle of Barrosa, additionally being listed as wounded in the right arm at Bayonne 13 Dec 1813 'when in action with the enemy'.

Higgs was present at both Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo, serving in Captain Charles Tenion's Company. The 28th were in the thick of the fighting throughout both battles, taking significant casualties: in the Duke of Wellington's subsequent Waterloo Despatch, they were the only English infantry regiment to be specifically mentioned by name and were also immortalised in the magnificent painting 28th Regiment at Waterloo by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, in 1875.

Higgs was discharged on 5 Feb 1822 and did not live to claim Military General Service Medal; sold together with photocopies of the Adjutant's Roll for Waterloo and a Statement of Service.