Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (R. Howe, Serjt. 7th Foot.) some distortion to carriage of first 3-clasp set, otherwise very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, September 1910; Spink N.C., February 1978.

Robert Howe was born in 1782 in the Parish of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, and attested for the 7th Royal Fusiliers at Eastbourne, Sussex, on 24 August 1807, aged 25, for unlimited service. He served 7 years 92 days as a Private, 2 years 31 days as a Corporal, and 1 year 323 days as a Sergeant, before being discharged on 14 November 1818, in consequence of a reduction in the establishment. His conduct during this period was ‘good, and that although never wounded served during the Peninsular Campaigns of 1809, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.’