Pair: Private Joseph Hackett, 95th Foot, Rifles

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees (J. Hackett, 95th Foot, Rifles.); Waterloo 1815 (Joseph Hacktt, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, first with edge bruising and contact marks, fine; second with heavy edge bruising, details worn through polishing, therefore poor (2) £3,000-£4,000

Provenance: Cheylesmore Collection 1930; Glendining’s, May 1947; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013.

Joseph Hackett is first traced as a Private in the muster rolls of the Leicestershire Militia in December 1807. He volunteered into the 1st Battalion, 95th Foot, on 1 April 1809, for a 7 year term of service with a Bounty of £5-5-0. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion on 25 April 1809, serving at Hythe barracks until June 1824 when he went on service to Spain. He remained in the Peninsula until 12 October 1813, when he is noted in the musters as ‘sick’ and gone to England with Major Wilkins as servant. The musters for the Waterloo quarter of 1815 show him as ‘wounded Brussels’ and as servant to Colonel Wilkins. He served in Captain J. Logan’s Company in the Waterloo Campaign and was discharged on 4 April 1816, his period of service expired.