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Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (William Irwin, 7th Foot) old repair to one side of carriage and some distortion to clasps, edge nicks, nearly very fine £600-800

Confirmed on the published rolls as William Jewin but found as Irwin on discharge papers.

William Irwin was born in the Parish of Hexham, Northumberland. A tailor by trade, he enlisted for the 7th Foot at the age of twenty-nine on 22 August 1807, a volunteer with 6 years previous service with the Berwick Fencibles. He served with the 7th Foot for 4 years 226 days and was discharged at Jersey on 4 April 1812, in consequence ‘of a Gun Shot Wound of the Thigh received at the Battle of Albuhera in Spain’. Sold with copied discharge papers.