Corporal Joshua Eaton, 39th Foot, who was wounded in the elbow at Vittoria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria (Joshua Eaton, Corpl. 39th Foot) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1200-1400

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

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Provenance: Debenham’s, March 1903; Glendining, March 1927; Spink, November 1998.

Joshua Eaton was born in the Parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, and enlisted into the 39th Foot on 14 March 1807, a Weaver by trade. He was discharged from the regiment at ‘Pass of Roncesvalles’ on 10 January 1814, in consequence of ‘wound left elbow at Vittoria’, and received his final discharge from the army at York on 8 March 1814, a ‘deserving soldier’, aged 25.

Sold with copied discharge papers.