Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

James Brown, 50th Foot, who was wounded in the leg in France

Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (James Brown, 50th Foot.) the carriage for the seventh clasp is fitted but is sold with separate clasp face for ‘Toulouse’, minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1600-1800

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

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Provenance: ‘Jubilee’ Collection, Glendining, May 1992; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002.

James Brown was born in Liverpool and enlisted into the 50th Foot on 24 April 1809, aged 26. He was transferred to the 13th Regiment of Veterans on 16 April 1815, and subsequently to the 7th Regiment of Veterans, before being discharged at Chelsea on 24 May 1815, in consequence of a ‘gun shot wound of left leg in France’. Sold with copied discharge papers.