William Davison, Royal Artillery, badly wounded in the face by a shell at Ciudad Rodrigo and in the shoulder at Badajoz

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Toulouse (Wm. Davison, R. Arty.) very fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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William Davison was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in about 1784/85. He enlisted into the Royal Artillery in July 1806, a Miller by trade, and served in the Peninsula with Holcombe’s Company, in the 6th Battalion R.A. At an ‘Examination of Invalid Soldiers’ held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 31 August 1852, he was granted a pension of 9d per diem. He was then aged 68 with a total service of 8 years 2 months, and stated to have been ‘discharged 19th September 1814. Wounded both eyes and nose broken by a Bomb Shell at Rodrigo. Wounded left shoulder at Badajoz.’

Sold with copied Examination papers.