Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (William Delicote, 52nd Foot.) small edge bruises, otherwise very fine £2200-2400

Provenance: Gaskell Collection 1911; Glendining’s, April 1964, ‘Medals of the 43/52 Foot (Ox. and Bucks. L.I.)’. His Waterloo medal was sold at Christie’s on 24 March 1987.

Talavera not confirmed. Roll shows 10 clasps only with Pyrenees in place of Busaco.

William Delicote (Dillicote on discharge papers) was born in the Parish of Aston under Lyne, Lancashire, and enlisted for the 52nd Foot at Plymouth on 4 April 1810, aged 20 years, for unlimited service. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant on 6 April 1829, ‘to enable him to accept of the situation of Town Sergeant at Halifax, Nova Scotia’. He was ‘severely wounded in his right leg at the Battle of Waterloo’.

Delicote was admitted as a Chelsea Hospital out-pensioner on 5 August 1829, living at Liverpool. He died on 27 March 1855. Sold with copied discharge papers