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22 July 2016

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№ 354

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22 July 2016

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Albuhera (Samuel Bannister, 29th Foot.) edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1600-1800

Samuel Bannister was born circa 1781 in the Parish of Lightcliffe, near Hipperholme, Yorkshire. He served in the Fencibles, November 1799 to May 1802, and enlisted into the 29th Foot on 9 May 1802. He transferred to the 1st Battalion Royal Veterans on 25 May 1812 and was discharged from that unit on 12 July 1814, in consequence of a ‘severe gunshot wound through the right side at Albuhera 16 May 1811 - and inguinal hernia and disbandment.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.