Auction Catalogue

17 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 337

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17 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£520

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Albuhera, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive (Peter Angus, 3rd Foot) light edge bruises, therefore very fine £600-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brett Collection of Medals to The Buffs.

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Peter Angus is also shown on the Colonial List. Thirty 4 clasp medals issued to the 3rd Foot but only 3 with this combination of clasps.

Peter Angus was born in the Parish of Reay, near Thurso, Caithness, and enlisted at Thurso on 18 May 1807. He was discharged in the rank of Corporal at Dublin on 10 August 1821, in consequence of reduction in the Establishment and ‘from his being a good deal worn out from fatigue, privation and disease on actual service in the field, in the Peninsula and in France, and from his being often sickly in consequence.’ Sold with copy discharge papers.