Lot Archive

Lot

№ 351

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£980

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Salamanca (Samuel Harman, 40th Foot) light contact marks, edge nicks and a little polished, otherwise about very fine £800-1000

Samuel Harman, a native of Wiltshire, was discharged in December 1814 in consequence of ‘the loss of the thumb of his right hand on 10 May 1811 and three other gun shot wounds received at Salamanca and Rodrigo’. Aged 54 years, he was admitted as an Out-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in May 1815, and died at his residence in Taunton in February 1856.