Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Gunner David Annan, Royal Horse Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (David Annan, Royal Horse Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (David Annan, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery) fitted with contemporary silver bar suspension with unofficial clasp ‘Waterloo’, the name of the battle and the date erased from the reverse of the last medal, contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (2) £2000-2500

David Annan was born at St Johns, Newfoundland, America, and enlisted into the Royal Horse Artillery on 12 October 1797, a Shoemaker by trade, aged 18. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in Lieutenant-Colonel R. Bull’s troop of Horse Artillery. He was discharged at Woolwich on 31 March 1816, in consequence of ‘being placed on the Pension List at One Shilling & One penny halfpenny per diem commencing 1 April 1816, by order of the Honble. Board of Ordnance’.

Sold with copied discharge papers.