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17 & 18 July 2019

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№ 920 x

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18 July 2019

Hammer Price:
£2,400

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun (Joel Westcot, 15th Light Dragoons.) a few minor edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine and very scarce £2,200-£2,600

Provenance: Glendining’s, May 1926; Sotheby, June 1973.

103 clasps for Sahagun issued, mostly to the 15th Light Dragoons, including 19 as single clasp medals.

Sold with copied medal roll entry which confirms Westcot as serving in Captain Edwin Griffith’s Troop. Griffith went on to serve as a Major at Waterloo and was killed in action.