Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 765

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£390

Defective medal, Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (William Harvey, 36th Foot), renamed, nearly very fine £100-140

Sold with copied discharge papers dated March 1826, ‘... discharged as a consequence of impaired vision also bad health from recurrent fever contracted in the Ionian Islands in 1821 and 1824, and a gunshot wound in left arm received at Toulouse in 1814’. The published medal roll confirms the four clasps to the recipient.