Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

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Lot

№ 17

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£600

Military General Service 1793-1814, no clasp (James Ratcliffe, 14th Light Dragoons) the medal mounted within an ornate silver mount, with swivel movement permitting the naming to be seen, with a pin-fitting to the reverse, some additional signs of brooch mounting to obverse, edge bruising and other marks to edge, very fine £400-500

James Ratcliffe was born in the Parish of Megley, Halifax in 1786. A Cotton Weaver by occupation, he attested for the 14th Light Dragoons at Manchester on 18 June 1803. Promoted to Corporal in March 1819 and Serjeant in May 1821. Discharged in October 1837. His discharge papers state that he served five and half years in the Peninsula; the rest at home and that he present with the regiment at several engagements from December 1808 to the battle of Toulouse in 1814. He was slightly wounded in the hand near Almeida, 24 July 1810. Awarded the Military General Service Medal with 11 clasps for Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse. With copied discharge papers.