Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (James Newcomb, 88th Foot.) edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine £2500-3000

Provenance: Glendining’s, April 1926; Jourdain Collection.

James Newcomb was born in the Parish of Killala, County Mayo, and enlisted into the 88th Foot at Pevensey on 5 December 1805. In 1807 he took part in the ill-fated expedition to Buenos Ayres, being wounded in the left knee, right foot and left hand. Lieutenant Duncan Robertson, later to become Newcomb’s company commander, was also wounded in the attack on Buenos Ayres. Newcomb served with the 88th throughout the war in the Peninsula and was discharged, and granted an out-pension of 6d per day, following an Examination of Invalid Soldiers at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 30 July 1817. Sold with copied entries from regimental description book and Chelsea Hospital register.