Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes (Neil Boyd, 71st Foot.) lower clasp carriage a little distorted, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800

Glendining’s, November 1910.

Neil ‘Boyde’ was born in the Parish of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and enlisted into the 71st Foot on 2 May 1806, aged 18 years, a weaver by trade. He transferred to the 13th and then the 7th Regiment of Veterans on 16 April 1815, in consequence of gun shot wounds of his right arm and left shoulder in France. He was discharged from the 7th Royal Veterans at Chelsea on 24 May 1816, drew his pension at Glasgow where he died on 18 August 1854.

Sold with copied discharge and pension papers.