Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Henry Drake, 7th Light Dragoons

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Orthes (Henry Drake, 7th Light Dragoons.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Murray Collection 1891; Blair Collection 1935.

Henry Drake was born at Peterborough, Northamptonshire, and attested for the 7th Hussars at London on 11 November 1811, aged 17. He served ‘abroad in Spain, the South of France, at Waterloo and in the Army of Occupation in France until 1818’. He was discharged on 8 November 1837, being ‘emaciated, debilitated, worn out and quite unfit for military duty.’ His total service amounted to 27 years, including 2 years for Waterloo but excluding one year’s service under age. Sold with copied discharge papers.