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Renamed Medal: Waterloo 1815 (In Memoriam Robert C. Packe. Obit. Waterloo) renamed, with...
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Renamed Medal: Waterloo 1815 (In Memoriam Robert C. Packe. Obit. Waterloo) renamed, with replacement silver loop suspender, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Robert Christopher Packe, a Major in Royal Horse Guards, was wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815. Two days later at Waterloo, 2,000 heavy British cavalry, led by the Earl of Uxbridge, Major-General Sir William Ponsonby and Lord Edward Somerset, with Sir Robert Hill and Robert Packe heading the Royal Horse Guards, hit the French hard, creating havoc, killing 2,000, taking 3,000 prisoners and two eagles. They charged too far and were badly cut up by French lancers and curassiers. Of the seven cavalry regiments, only the Royal Horse Guards maintained a semblance of order, and though they had barely 200 sabres, helped to bring off and protect the Household Brigade survivors on their way back. However, they took severe casualties; later, Blücher's Prussians arrived to ensure Napoleon's defeat. And They Rode On, by Michael Mann, Dean of Windsor, wrote that Packe was killed when charging French currassiers as their cavalry swords were two inches longer than the British ones, the longer reach being aimed at the throat and the Blues had no breastplates. He was buried on the battlefield. The officers of the Royal Horse Guards, in which he had served for over 15 years, erected a memorial in the north choir aisle of St George's Chapel, Windsor 'in testimony of their high veneration of his distinguished military merit and regret for the loss of a companion endeared to them by his amiable manner and virtue'. His parents erected a monument in St. Andrew’s Church, on the Prestwold estate, Leicestershire, where the Packe family continue to live.
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Renamed Medal: Waterloo 1815 (In Memoriam Robert C. Packe. Obit. Waterloo) renamed, with replacement silver loop suspender, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Robert Christopher Packe, a Major in Royal Horse Guards, was wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815. Two days later at Waterloo, 2,000 heavy British cavalry, led by the Earl of Uxbridge, Major-General Sir William Ponsonby and Lord Edward Somerset, with Sir Robert Hill and Robert Packe heading the Royal Horse Guards, hit the French hard, creating havoc, killing 2,000, taking 3,000 prisoners and two eagles. They charged too far and were badly cut up by French lancers and curassiers. Of the seven cavalry regiments, only the Royal Horse Guards maintained a semblance of order, and though they had barely 200 sabres, helped to bring off and protect the Household Brigade survivors on their way back. However, they took severe casualties; later, Blücher's Prussians arrived to ensure Napoleon's defeat. And They Rode On, by Michael Mann, Dean of Windsor, wrote that Packe was killed when charging French currassiers as their cavalry swords were two inches longer than the British ones, the longer reach being aimed at the throat and the Blues had no breastplates. He was buried on the battlefield. The officers of the Royal Horse Guards, in which he had served for over 15 years, erected a memorial in the north choir aisle of St George's Chapel, Windsor 'in testimony of their high veneration of his distinguished military merit and regret for the loss of a companion endeared to them by his amiable manner and virtue'. His parents erected a monument in St. Andrew’s Church, on the Prestwold estate, Leicestershire, where the Packe family continue to live.
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