Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (R. Atkinson, 3rd Foot Guards.) very fine £2600-3000

Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1990.

Richard Atkinson was born in the Parish of Whitchurch, Yorkshire, and enlisted for the 3rd Foot Guards at Birmingham on 14 March 1799, aged 18, a bricklayer by trade. A Private throughout his total service of 22 years 179 days, he was discharged in London on 8 September 1821, in consequence of ‘being wounded in the hand at Talavera & in the arm at Burgos,’ and was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an In-Pensioner shortly afterwards. Sold with copied discharge papers and various In-Pensioner lists.