John Yeadon, 3rd Foot Guards, who was had three wounds at Bayonne

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Barrosa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (J. Yeadon, 3rd Foot Gds.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine
£1600-1800

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

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Provenance: Needes Collection; Glendining, July 1940.

John Yeadon was born in the Parish of Middlam, Yorkshire, and enlisted into the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards on 10 October 1809, at the age of 27. A Corn Miller by trade, he had previously served in the North York Militia, continuously from 10 October 1802. He was discharged at London on 27 October 1814, in consequence of ‘being wounded in the shoulder, arm and thigh at Bayonne’. Admitted as an out-pensioner to Chelsea Hospital at the rate of 9d per day, he died at Bainbridge, Yorkshire, on 15 March 1857, aged 73 years.

Sold with copied discharge papers.