MySource:Peter swaine/Service Records - L Hardy

See photocopy for full details: Enlisted 15th Hussars 28th Sept 1809 at the age of Twenty years 15th Hussars - Private 28th Sept - 3rd May 1811 1 yr 218 days

                   - Promoted Corporal 4th May 1811 - 24 July 1813 2 yrs 82 days
                   - Promoted Serjeant 25th July 1813 - 14th June 1816 2 yrs 320 days
                   - Reduced Private 15th June 1816 - 8th Nov 1817 1 yr 147 days
                   - Discharged on Payment of Twenty Pounds
                   - Waterloo   - 2 years [presumably enhanced pension rights]

First Life Guards - Re-enlisted Private 2nd Sept 1818 - 31st December 1828 10yrs 121 days Total service: 20 yrs 158 days

First Life Guards - Private 1st Jan 1829 - 19th October 1836 7yrs 293 days. Discharged 19th Oct 1836 at 47 years making a total of 28 yrs 86 days.

Born in the parish of Bix, Oxford. 5 ft 11ins, Fresh complexion, Grey hair, Light Brown hair, Service abroad: With the 15th Hussars [ink blot] in the Netherlands & France, & was present at the Battle of Waterloo.

Reported to be a good and Efficient Soldier. Trustworthy Pension awarded 1 shilling & two pence.