Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private John Keay, 92nd Highlanders, who was wounded in Spain in 1813, and again at Quatre Bras in 1815

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Vittoria, Pyrenees (J. Keay, 92nd Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (John Key, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders.) fitted with a replacement straight bar suspension, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2) £4,000-£5,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, May 1937, July 1953, March 1961, and April 1978.

John Key/Keay was born at Kittens, Cupar Angus, Forfar, and enlisted into the 92nd Highlanders on 16 January 1799, having previous service of 3 years 7 months in the Perth Fencibles. He is present on the musters for the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. He served in the Corunna campaign of 1809, in the Peninsula at the battle of Vittoria and in the Pyrenees, and at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was admitted to an out-pension at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, after an examination held there on 30 October 1816, in consequence of ‘wounded rt. hand by a shell at Quatre Bras & in the head in Spain 30 July 1813.’

On 30 July 1813, the 92nd fought an action near the village of Beunza in the Pyrenees, just five days after the regiment had suffered heavy losses at the Pass of Maya. Sold with copied Chelsea Hospital pension records.