Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1086

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,300

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Talavera (John Webb, 3rd Foot) some edge bruising, good very fine £800-900

John Webb was born at Wallingford, near Reading, Berkshire, and enlisted for the 3rd Foot in December 1807, a Volunteer from the Tower Hamlets Militia. He was discharged on 15 March 1815, in consequence of ‘a gun shot wound of right hand in France’. He was admitted as a Chelsea Pensioner on 31 March 1815, and died on 17 March 1852.