Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Egypt, Vittoria (William Kerr, 12th Light Dragoons) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £500-600

Ex Gray Collection 1911.

48 Egypt clasps issued to the regiment.

William Kerr was born at Woodman, Kent, and served for 3 years in the Lanark and Dunbarton Fencible Cavalry before enlisting into the 12th Light Dragoons on 20th March 1800. A note sold with his medal states that he was ‘wounded in the left thigh on 21st March 1801’, but this is not recorded on his discharge papers which state only that he ‘Served in the Peninsula & Waterloo’. He was discharged to Pension on 16 February 1819. Sold with copy discharge papers.