Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (John Foster, 20th Foot) good very fine £1200-1400

John Foster was born in Blackmore, Essex and was christened there on 13 April 1788. Employed as a Labourer, he was recruited into the 20th Foot from the West Essex Militia and served from 1809 until discharged in 1816. He subsequently made a successful claim for a four-clasp Military General Service Medal.

The entry for John Foster in the published M.G.S. roll states, ‘St. Helena as Clr. Sjt.’ The lot is sold with copied research which indicates that there were two ‘John Fosters’ in the regiment and that the man who subsequently served on St. Helena died in service in 1825.