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Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (William Hennessey, 18th Hussars) good very fine £800-1000
William Hennessey, by trade a butcher, from Goran, Kilkenny, was discharged from the Army and admitted on to the Chelsea Hospital pension list on 22 September 1814, having ‘Lost an eye from cold on duty in France in February 1814’. He was then aged 33.
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