Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Joseph Dodd, 34th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes (Joseph Dodd, 34th Foot.) good very fine £1400-1600

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

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Provenance: Whitehouse Collection 1869; Eaton (later Lord Cheylesmore) Collection 1880, sold Glendining, July 1930; Baldwin, November 2001.

Joseph Dodd was born in the Parish of St Anne’s, Chester, and was a Sawyer by trade before he enlisted for the 34th Foot on 1 April 1809. He served in the Peninsula with the 2nd Battalion and was discharged on 24 November 1817, in consequence of a fractured knee. Sold with copied discharge papers.