Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Albuhera (Joseph Rodgers, 7th Foot) medal has brooch marks to obverse and probably reconstituted from a mount, severely worn overall, a few letters of naming affected, fair only £500-600

Joseph Rodgers was born at Bewdley, Worcestershire, circa 1786. He served in the Worcester Militia from March 1803 to 24 June 1807, and attested for the 7th Foot on the following day. He served at Martinique 1808-09 and in the Peninsula, and was wounded at Albuhera on 16 May 1811. In March 1824 he transferred to the 94th Foot and was discharged in the rank of Colour-Sergeant on 9 August 1828, in consequence of defective vision and ‘from several gunshot wounds that he received 16th May, 1811, at Albuhera.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.