Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (F. Wheeler Armstrong, Lieut. 48th Foot. Capt. H.P.C.G.) contemporarily re-engraved naming, clasp facings and clasp carriage slightly bent, with the Talavera and Badajoz clasps both sprung on right hand side, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £600-£800

Francis Wheeler Armstrong was born in Ireland in 1779, and was commissioned Ensign in the 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot on 1 September 1808. He served with Regiment in the Peninsula from April 1809 to April 1814, and was present at the passage of the Douro, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera, Aldea de Ponte, Badajoz (wounded), Salamanca (wounded), Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse. Promoted Lieutenant on 21 June 1810, he subsequently transferred to the 55th Regiment of Foot on 19 February 1818, and then to Half Pay list of the Coldstream Guards on 24 October 1822. He died on 15 April 1868 and is buried in Green Street Cemetery, St. Helier, Jersey.

Armstrong appears on the latest published transcript of the Military General Service medal roll as receiving a medal with these same ten clasps; this medal was sold at Glendining’s in 1912, and again in 1952.