Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Barrosa, Albuhera, Badajoz (L. Dundas, Lieut. 5th Foot, Majr. of Bde. & D.A.A.G.) good very fine £2000-2500

Ex Brewis collection of medals of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, Glendining’s April 1933; and Prof. A. Leyland Robinson Collection.

Lawrence Dundas was born in Ireland on 12 April 1788, and was gazetted as Ensign in the 5th Foot on 3 March 1807. He served in the Peninsula with the 2/5th Foot from July 1809 until January 1810, and on the Staff from February 1810 until November 1811. During this latter period he acted as Brigade Major and Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to Major-General Stafford Lightburn, commanding 2 Brigade 3 Division, and afterwards to Major-General John Sontag, commanding 2 Brigade 4 Division. He was present at the battles of Busaco and Albuhera, and at the siege of Badajoz. Dundas retired in 1812 and died at Kingstown, Ireland, on 18 July 1866. He is buried in Carrickbrennan Cemetery, Dun Laoghaire, where his headstone gives his rank as Major.