Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa (M. Cunningham, 28th Foot), edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £1100-1300

Ex Hamilton-Smith Collection, Glendining’s, March 1927.

Michael Cunningham was born at Ballyshehan, near Cashill, Co. Tipperary, circa 1782. He enlisted into the 28th Foot on 12 May 1802, and was discharged on 1 January 1813, in consequence of a ‘gun shot wound of thigh at the Battle of Barrosa in Spain.’ He served in Captain Hill’s company at Barrosa. A Corporal at the time of his discharge, he had held the rank of Sergeant for 2 years 274 days. He was admitted to pension at Chelsea on 29 January 1813, and died at the Workhouse, Chelsea, on 30 October 1862, aged 89 years; sold with copied discharge papers and death certificate.