Sporran, Lieutenant John Bramwell, 92nd Regiment of Foot, 1815 (c)

Brown leather purse and frontal flap; front of purse covered with grey goat hair with eight white goat hair tassels; frontal flap with a silver badge with a Sphinx resting upon a tablet bearing the battle honour 'Egypt'; below which is a scroll bearing the battle honour, 'Waterloo'.

John Bramwell served with the 92nd Regiment of Foot from 1813 to 1817. The 92nd was in Ireland when Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba. The regiment was immediately rushed to the continent where it fought at Quatre Bras and Waterloo in June 1815. Bramwell was wounded at Quatre Bras and lost a leg as a result. He died in 1881.