White metal magnifying glass, nd.
Belonging to Lt Col Sir Alexander Gordon, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington.
With an inscribed commemorative plate, added 1932 (c).
Lt Col Gordon would have used this folding, horn bound magnifying glass to study maps, letters and documents.
Gordon was severely wounded at Waterloo and carried to Wellington’s Headquarters where he died the following morning, the Duke is said to have burst into tears when he heard of Gordon’s death.
Associated with the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards and the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).