Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Harding, 28th Foot.) original ribbon, first carriage slightly bent, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine
£2400-2800

John Harding was born at Camerton, near Bath, Somerset, and enlisted into the 28th Foot at Plymouth Dock on 17 September 1803, for life, aged nineteen years. He served in the Corunna campaign of 1809 and afterwards in the Peninsula, and was ‘severely wounded thro’ the right knee at Vittoria on the 21 June 1813 when in action with the enemy’. He later went on to fight at the battle of Waterloo and was discharged on 3 June 1823, ‘being worn out’. Sold with copied discharge papers.

Harding’s Waterloo medal is held by the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum