Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (J. Shipley, 10th Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £800-1000

Provenance: Dowell’s, November 1909; Baldwins 1972.

57 medals issued to the 10th Foot, all with clasp for Egypt.

John Shipley was born in the Parish of Wells, Derbyshire, and enlisted into the 10th Foot at Lincoln on 7 March 1799, aged twenty, a cutler by trade, for unlimited service. He served in the East Indies, including the campaign in Egypt, from 5 December 1800 to 4 May 1801. He was discharged at Woolwich on 13 May 1822, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism since employed in Spain during 1812 & 1813.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.