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Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (John Lockey, 7th Foot.) dark toned, good very fine £2600-3000

Unique 9-clasp combination to the 7th Foot; and only one other awarded to Lieutenant Edward Johnston, 48th Foot.

John Lockey was born in the Parish of Gainsford, York, and enlisted for the 7th Foot at Huddersfield on 24 October 1805, aged 20, a cordwainer by trade. Although he served with the 1st Battalion in the West Indies from 30 January to 15 April 1809, he did not make a claim for the capture of Martinique. He was discharged at Hull on 13 October 1829, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism and being completely worn out’, and was admitted to out-pension on the following day. His discharge papers also note that he was ‘wounded in the left shoulder and left knee’ but no further details are given. He died in Sunderland on 19 January 1867. Sold with copied discharge papers and Chelsea Out-Pension entry.