Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private James Gearns, 42nd Royal Highlanders
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Jas. Gearns, 42nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (James Gearns, 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, two letters of surname corrected on the second, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine but an attractive pair (2) £1400-1600

Ex Murray Collection.

James Gearns/Gairns was born in Berwick, circa 1793, and enlisted into the 42nd Foot in 1811. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in Captain Campbell’s Company, and was wounded in the knee ‘in action with the enemy on the sixteenth day of June 1815 (at Quatre Bras).’ He was discharged at Edinburgh, in consequence of his wounds, on 11 May 1816, and admitted to Pension at Chelsea Hospital on the following day.