Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna (T. Savage, R. Arty.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kuriheka Collection of British Medals.

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Ex Glendining’s October 1910.

Thomas Savage was born in Yorkshire and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Chester-le-Street, Durham, on 25 April 1805, aged twenty-two. He served in the Peninsula in Geary’s company, 5th Battalion, Royal Artillery, and was discharged to pension on 31 May 1828, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism and general debility.’