Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Egypt, Corunna, Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria, Pyrenees (Peter Mitchell, 92nd Foot) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1600-1800

Ex Sotheby July 1993, when sold with damaged carriage and lacking two clasps, now expertly restored.

Peter Mitchell was born at Urquhart, in the county of Moray, and enlisted for the 92nd Foot on 25 January 1798. He served as a private throughout his period of service and was discharged on 16 March 1815, in consequence of a wounded abdomen sustained on the Heights of Maya, 25 July 1813. The 92nd were particularly distinguished at Maya when only 400 Scotsmen held an entire French division at bay for twenty minutes before they were compelled to pull back, having lost half their strength killed or wounded. Sold with copied discharge papers.