Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Ciudad Rodrigo (R. B. Hunt, Capt. R. Arty. & A.D.C.) good very fine and a scarce single clasp £1600-1800

Richard Burges Hunt was appointed Ensign in the Royal Artillery on 8 September 1803, becoming Lieutenant two weeks later, and promoted to Captain on 11 August 1811. He served at Hanover in 1805-06; at Copenhagen in 1807; and in the Peninsula from September 1810 to May 1812, including the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo as Aide de Camp to Major-General William Borthwick who commanded the artillery at that siege.