Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees (Richard Beatty, 32nd Foot.) light edge bruising and surface marks, otherwise very fine £1,400-£1,800

Inman Collection 1896 (single clasp for Pyrenees only); Glendining’s, November 1924; Baldwin 1957; Glendining’s, September 1987.

Richard Beatty was born in the Parish of Temple Michael, Longford, and enlisted into the 32nd Foot on 12 June 1806, aged 16, a labourer by trade. He served 10 years 151 days and was discharged at Guernsey on 10 November 1816, in consequence of ‘scrophulus ulceration of the groins’. Admitted to an Out-pension of Chelsea Hospital of 6d per diem in the Manchester District on 19 December 1816, he later transferred to the Newry District in July 1848.

Sold with copied discharge papers.