Lot Archive

Lot

№ 161

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (R. Carr, 25th Foot) edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1400

Robert Carr was born at Long Benton, Northumberland, and enlisted at Cleadon on 17 May 1806, aged 18 years, for unlimited service. He served 9 years 181 days in the West Indies and was discharged, ‘worn out and having a chronic infection of the liver’, at Edinburgh on 8 October 1826. Sold with copy discharge papers.