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Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees (Robert Dawson, 34th Foot.) toned, nearly extremely fine £1200-1400

Robert Dawson was born in the Parish of Halstead, Essex, in about 1784. He attested for the 34th Foot on 25 April 1805, a labourer by trade, and was discharged on 24 February 1814, in consequence of a ‘gunshot wound in his right leg, 25th July 1813, at Maya Pass in action with the enemy’. Sold with copied discharge papers.