Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Toulouse (D. Barry, Gunner, Royal Arty.) very fine £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Robert Lamb.

View
Collection

David Barry was born in the parish of Kerrymuir, Forfarshire, in 1779 and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Paisley, Lanark, in April 1799. He served during the Peninsula campaigns in Trelawney’s and Powers’ Companies, and was discharged in October 1818, on reduction of the forces.