14th Regiment of foot 3rd Battalion 1816 John Gilbert

[ShaunJ]

But then I also found a UK regimental registers of service record:
Name:John Gilbert
Birth: about 1793
Birth location: Wantage, Berks
Military enlistment date: 3/12/1813
Attestation: Galway

He was certainly 14th Foot. Discharged 23 December 1817.

[ShaunJ]

By 25th September 1816 he has been sent to St Maria

St Maura (Santa Maura) in the Greek islands

[ShaunJ]

Did you see that his Waterloo medal sold on eBay for $4,600 ?

https://picclick.com/SCARCE-1815-BRITISH-WATERLOO-MEDAL-TO-JOHN-GILBERT-264811558215.html

[Gilbert1]

Did you see that his Waterloo medal sold on eBay for $4,600 ?

https://picclick.com/SCARCE-1815-BRITISH-WATERLOO-MEDAL-TO-JOHN-GILBERT-264811558215.html

Yes I did find that! I contacted the eBay seller and asked if they had any more photos of it that they wouldn’t mind sharing with me but they said they didn’t have them.

[Gilbert1]

But then I also found a UK regimental registers of service record:
Name:John Gilbert
Birth: about 1793
Birth location: Wantage, Berks
Military enlistment date: 3/12/1813
Attestation: Galway

He was certainly 14th Foot. Discharged 23 December 1817.

So do you think this could definitely be the soldier I am looking for?

[ShaunJ]

So do you think this could definitely be the soldier I am looking for?

It's certainly very likely. The muster rolls for February 1814 and September 1816 (online on Ancestry) list only one John Gilbert in 14th Foot: he was in 3rd Battalion initially and had transferred to 2nd Battalion by September 1816.

[QueenoftheWest]

Following this with interest.

The only John Gilbert baptised in Wantage, Berkshire in 1793 (+/-5 years) is this one:

John Gilbert, born 8 Feb 1791, baptised 25 Apr 1791 in Wantage, Berkshire, to Richard & Sarah Gilbert.

Queenie 

[Gilbert1]

So do you think this could definitely be the soldier I am looking for?

It's certainly very likely. The muster rolls for February 1814 and September 1816 (online on Ancestry) list only one John Gilbert in 14th Foot: he was in 3rd Battalion initially and had transferred to 2nd Battalion by September 1816.

Ok thank you for your help 

[Gilbert1]

Following this with interest.

The only John Gilbert baptised in Wantage, Berkshire in 1793 (+/-5 years) is this one:

John Gilbert, born 8 Feb 1791, baptised 25 Apr 1791 in Wantage, Berkshire, to Richard & Sarah Gilbert.

Queenie 

I was just looking at the same record now if I can find a marriage between him and Elizabeth (mother of his daughter Maria Gilbert born 1816 Chichester)..