Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (George McGorgan, 27th Foot) neat repairs to carriage and rivets, otherwise good very fine £900-1100

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

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Only one company of the regiment present at Albuhera.

George McGorgan was born in 1790 at Tully Saren, near Armagh, Ireland, and enlisted into the 27th Foot at Armagh on 25 December 1806, aged 17 years. He served 22 years 269 days and was discharged on 22 July 1829, from Barbados, in consequence of a chronic ulcer on his left leg and an exhausted constitution. Sold with copy discharge papers.