This is the
Waterloo Medal to Colour-Sergeant Andrew Matthews born at Warkworth, enlisted 1813, found himself in the Coldstream Guards and in the thick of the fighting at Waterloo.
His battalion had 55 killed, 249 wounded and 4 missing in the battle. Not nice, nearly one third of their strength. But of course Matthews had the distinction of being at one of those great turning points in world history.