Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees (Robt. Ross, 92nd Foot) contact marks, nearly very fine
£1000-1200

Robert Ross was born in Cromarty on the ‘Black Isle’. A Hemp Worker by occupation, he enlisted into the 92nd Foot on 30 July 1808, aged 16 years. With the regiment he was present at the climactic battle of Vittoria, 21 June 1813. In action again during the advance through the Pyrenees, he sustained a gunshot wound to the right leg during the forcing of the Heights of Maya, 25 July 1813. That was to be his last action and he was discharged on 23 October 1815.

Following his discharge, Ross returned to Cromarty and was employed by the Cromarty Hemp Works. The Cromarty Militia List of 1831 shows that he was exempt from further service due to being classified as an invalid army pensioner.