Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Gunner John Butcher, Ross’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes (J. Butcher, Gunr., Royal H. Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (John Butcher, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery) original steel clip and ring suspension, second with slight edge bruising and light contact marks, good very fine (2) £3000-3500

John Butcher served as a Gunner in Lieutenant-Colonel Ross’s “A” Troop, the ‘Chestnut Troop’, Royal Horse Artillery, during the Peninsula and Waterloo campaigns. The published M.G.S. roll lists only 8 clasps to Butcher; the ‘Artillery’ roll by Vigors and Macfarlane lists the above nine. Reunited after being a long time split, the single M.G.S. was ex Hamilton-Smith sale, 20/21 July 1927.