Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Martinique (T. Crosse, Capt. 8th Foot) very fine £1400-1600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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Thomas Crosse/Cross was appointed Ensign in the 8th Foot on 12 October 1804, and promoted to Lieutenant on 22 August 1805. After participating in the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 and at the capture of Martinique in 1809, the regiment was stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, until May 1810 when it moved to Quebec. On the outbreak of war with America in 1812, it moved up country to Montreal to help thwart any American ambitions of conquest in that direction.Thomas Crosse succeeded to the command of a Company as a Captain in August 1813, in place of Lieutenant Hooker who was killed on the heights of Burlington in Upper Canada in June 1813, and who had himself succeeded to the vacancy provided by Captain McNeale, killed near York in April 1813. Captain Crosse went on half pay in December 1817. Sold with some research.