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№ 839

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£3,400

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Alexr. Leddle, 94th Foot.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine
£2500-3000

Maximum clasp entitlement to the 94th Foot.

Alexander Leddle/Liddle, a Shoemaker from Linlithgow, was admitted to a late pension on 8 June 1852, then aged 63. He had been discharged on 30 May 1815, after 7 years service, and had been wounded in the right hand at the battle of Salamanca. Sold with copied Chelsea Hospital Examination papers.