Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Salamanca (Samuel Harman, 40th Foot.) very fine £1200-1600

Provenance: Sotheby, May 1910; Spink, December 1984 and DNW, March 2005.

Samuel Harman, a native of Wiltshire, was discharged in December 1814 in consequence of ‘the loss of the thumb of his right hand on 10 May 1811 and three other gun shot wounds received at Salamanca and Rodrigo’. Aged 54 years, he was admitted as an Out-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in May 1815, and died at his residence in Taunton in February 1856.