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№ 617

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£370

17th Light Dragoons Medal for Military Virtue, the edge with engraved naming, ‘Ed. Price’, silver circular award, unmarked, obverse, regimental crest and title, reverse, battle honours ‘India’, ‘Buenos Ayres’, ‘Montevideo’ and ‘St. Domingo’ within laurel wreath, and ‘A Reward for Military Virtue’ around, 44mm. diameter, swivel-bar suspension, lacquered, edge bruise, good very fine £80-120

See reference R96 in Balmer’s British and Irish Regimental & Volunteer Medals 1745-1895 (Volume I, Regular Army), other examples being known to Quarter-Master James Cockburn and Assistant Surgeon John Lorimer.

Edmund Price was appointed a Veterinary Surgeon in the 17th Light Dragoons in June 1816.