Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Toulouse (Wm. Kelly, 43rd Foot) signs of brooch mounting to reverse, contact marks, some edge bruising, nearly very fine £2800-3200

William Kelly, newly serving in the Cumberland Militia, volunteered for service with the 2nd Battalion 43rd Foot, enlisting on 20 April 1808. Serving throughout the Peninsula War, in Portugal, Spain and France, 1808-14, he was present at many of the significant battles and sieges of the war. The regiment, travelling back from Nova Scotia, missed the Waterloo Campaign, arriving on the European mainland just after the battle but was employed as part of the ‘Army of Occupation’, being based at Bapaume and Valenciennes. Kelly was discharged at Belfast on 6 November 1818. Sold with copied research. Just 9 medals with 11 clasps to the 43rd Foot.