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№ 1061

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10 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£3,400

Pair: Captain George Macleod Baynes, Royal Field Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (G. M. Baynes, Lieut. R. Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Geo. Macleod Baynes, Royal Field Artillery) fitted with replacement silver clip and bar suspension, both medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2)
£2600-3000

George Macleod Baynes was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 4 April 1807; 1st Lieutenant, 1 February 1808; 2nd Captain, 1 August 1827. He served in the Peninsula in Brandreth’s Company, 8 Battalion, Royal Field Artillery, from September 1812 to April 1814, and was present at the Pyrenees, Nivelle and Toulouse. He was present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo in Captain Sandham’s Brigade, and with the Army of Occupation until December 1818. He later served in North America 1822-27 and the Ionian Islands 1827-30. Captain Baynes retired on half pay in September 1825 and died in Guernsey on 28 October 1874. He is buried in Candie Cemetery, St Peter Port, Gurnsey, together with his brother Major Henry Baynes, K.H., R.A.