Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (Peter Ashley, 23rd Regiment Foot 1831) with steel clip for ring suspension, very fine £750-850

Peter Ashley was born in the Parish of Malpas, Cheshire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service with the 23rd Regiment at Shrewsbury on 12 October 1807, aged 16 years. With them he served four years in the Peninsula and France, three and a half years in the Netherlands and France, six years in Gibraltar and fifteen months in Portugal. He saw service at Corunna, Badajoz, Albuhera, Samamanca, Ciudad Rodrigo, Vittoria, Pamplona, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse and Waterloo; being wounded at Salamanca - losing the fore-finger of his right hand; shot through the right shoulder at Pamplona and slightly wounded in the left shoulder at Orthes. During the Waterloo campaign he served in Captain Harrison’s Company No. 3. Peter Ashley was discharged at his own request on receiving a modified pension, in May 1831. He did not live to claim his M.G.S. medal. Sold with copied service papers and other research.