Auction Catalogue

20 September 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 357

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20 September 2002

Hammer Price:
£1,200

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.