Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (S. Dawson, 1st Foot, Royals) good very fine £750-850

Ex Broadley Collection, Sotheby’s, July 1982; Baldwin, November 2001; D.N.W., March 2005; Dixon, 2012.

Listed in the published roll as ‘Samuel Dawson’. With copied discharge and muster papers as ‘Simon Dawson’, which state that he was born in Stockport, Cheshire. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Artillery Drivers on 27 June 1802, serving with them for 6 years until January 1808 when he was transferred to the 1st Regiment (The Royal Scots). With them he served in Spain, seeing service at the battle of Corunna, 16 January 1809. The musters, of the quarter ending in March 1809, list him and a number of other men, as ‘missing in Spain’. He must have eventually turned up and went on to serve with the regiment until 24 March 1815, aged about 45 years, when he was discharged due to deafness making him unfit for further service.

With copied discharge papers and muster roll extracts.