Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Charles Billington, 40th Foot) good very fine £4000-5000

Ex Murray collection 1891, Sotheby May 1926, Glens February 1933, and Leyland Robinson collection 1952.

Approximately 184 M.G.S. issued with 11 clasps, including twelve to the 40th Foot.

Charles Billington was born at Bath, Somerset, and enlisted into the 40th Foot at Steyning, Kent, on 22 August 1807. He was discharged at Dublin on 12 June 1822, being ‘aged and worn out.’ His discharge papers record that he ‘served throughout the whole of the Peninsula, North America and Waterloo,’ and that he was ‘wounded in the arm and head during the Peninsula campaign.’ Billington was admitted as an Out-Pensioner to the Royal hospital, Kilmainham, on 26 June 1822. He died at Bath on 10 January 1854, aged 70 years. Sold with copy discharge papers and death certificate.