Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Keith Jameson, 18th Hussars.) light hairline scratching, otherwise better than very fine £2,000-£2,600

Provenance: Seaforth Collection 1870; Eaton Collection 1880 (later Lord Cheylesmore), sold Glendining’s, July 1930.

Keith Jameson was born at Aberdeen, where he first enlisted for the 2nd Dragoons (Greys) on 26 May 1797. He transferred to the 18th Hussars at Chester on 25 June 1802, aged 25, for unlimited service, a baker by trade. He was employed on recruiting duties in England prior to embarking for service in Portugal in 1808 and, after his second period of active service in the Peninsula campaign, was transferred to the Depot companies in England. He was serving with the Depot companies during the period of the battle of Waterloo, but re-joined the Service companies on 27 June 1815. He served a total of 23 years 152 days, a private throughout, and was discharged to Kilmainham Hospital pension, ‘being worn out and unfit for active service’, at Dublin on 25 October 1820. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.