(PETER McEWAN 42 R.H. JNFANTRY.). Naming is shaved and re-engraved in large capitals, inverted, the "J" used instead of an "I" in "Infantry" as was the custom at the time before the latter became the norm. In silver, measuring 35.5 mm in diameter, bruised, edge nicks, contact marks overall, replacement ribbon, fine. Accompanied by a letter from the Curator Major A.V.M. Chapman, M.B.E., T.D. of the Black Watch Museum at Balhousie Castle in Perth, Scotland, dated May 21, 1960 and signed by the curator, confirming that Private Peter McEwan had been with Captain (Brevet-Major) Murdoch McLaine's Company, the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot ("The Black Watch") at the Battle of Waterloo.
Footnote: Private Peter McEwan is listed on page 235 of "The Waterloo Medal Roll" by The Naval & Military Press Limited, Dallingto, East Sussex (1992), as having served with the sixty man unit of Captain Murdoch McLaine's Company, 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot ("The Black Watch") at the Battle of Waterloo, matching the information on the accompanying letter from Curator A.V.M. Chapman, M.B.E., T.D. of the Black Watch Museum.