Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 620

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£6,800

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. McMoran, 14th Light Dragoons) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £2500-3000

Ex Whitehouse collection 1869, Watters collection 1913, and Phillips collection 1965.

John McMorand was born in Cambridge and enlisted into the 14th Light Dragoons at Canterbury on 25 December 1800. He was discharged to Kilmainham pension at Dundalk on 18 February 1817, then aged 34 years and a blacksmith by trade. Sold with copied Kilmainham papers.