Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (W. Downes, 40th Foot) with silver buckle brooch bar, good very fine £2800-3200

Ex Fowler Collection, 1919; Glendining’s, March 1927 & May 1965; Baldwin, 1955; Hayward, 1968.

William Downes was born in Dublin and was a Tailor by occupation. As a Volunteer from the 2nd Somerset Militia, the battalion was stationed at Waterford, Ireland when he joined the 40th on 25 October 1807. With copied roll extracts.