Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Benevente, Orthes, Toulouse, Corunna (Jonathan Brown, 7th Hussars) last clasp unofficially attached, contact marks, otherwise very fine and rare
£2000-2500

Ex Cheylesmore Collection 1930 and Whitaker Collection 1956.

Jonathan Brown was born in the Parish of St Martin’s, London, and enlisted into the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars on 24 January 1801. He was taken prisoner at Waterloo, 18 June, 1815, and held prisoner until 17 September (Ref. Dwelly), being discharged on 24 May 1816, ‘in consequence of a rupture of the groin and imperfect vision’. He was admitted as an ‘In Pensioner’ in September 1854, and died on 10 August 1862. Whilst his name is recorded in Mullens’ roll, he has not been found on the official rolls for the M.G.S. medal. A total of only ten clasps were awarded for Benevente. Sold with copied record of service and various muster rolls which confirm his presence in the Peninsula at the time of these four actions.