RESEARCH NOTES
 

Thomas Radcliffe was born at Ormskirk, Lancashire, in 1770, and attested for the 2/44th Foot on 25 August 1802, aged 32. He spent 2 years 45 days as a Private and was promoted directly to Sergeant on 24 November 1804. He served in Captain Craig’s Company at Waterloo. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in Ireland in 1816 and Radcliffe was admitted to Kilmainham Hospital on 24 April 1816, upon discharge due to rheumatism. Sold with copied discharge and pension papers.

Note: Radcliffe’s original medal was in the H. Gaskell Collection in 1908 and later in Colonel Orpen-Smellie’s Collection who had purchased it from Baldwin’s in March 1950. It is now held in a private collection.