Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Alexander White, 79th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nive, Toulouse (Alexr. White, 79th Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (Alexander White, 1st Batt. 79th Reg. Foot.) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, nearly very fine, the first good very fine (2) £3500-4000

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

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Alexander White is shown on the muster for 25 June to 24 September 1815 as ‘Sick Brussels’ and ‘Sick St Dennis’, implying that he was probably wounded, and with a note in the remarks column, ‘A Waterloo Man. Above 7 Yrs., 13 December 1814’. The Waterloo pay-list shows his service as 12 December 1809 to 12 June 1816.

Sold with copied muster rolls.