Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 September 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 915

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19 September 2014

Hammer Price:
£800

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (J. Ferriday, Corporal, 7th Light Dragoons.) scratching over first two letters of naming, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine £1000-1200

John Ferriday was born in the Parish of Warnbridge, Salop, and enlisted into the 7th Light Dragoons on 18 September 1804, aged nineteen. He was discharged at Romford Barracks on 8 August 1814, in consequence of ‘ulcerated legs from the effect of the frost while in Spain in the year 1808 and being of a scrophulous habit of body’. Sold with copied discharge papers.