Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca, Orthes, Toulouse (M. Donoghue, 42nd Foot) nearly extremely fine £800-1000

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

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Michael Donoghue was born at Kilmain, county Cork, circa 1779, and served in the Loyal Inverness Fencible Highlanders from January 1795 to August 1802. He enlisted into the 42nd Foot at Balana on 7 September 1806. Donoghue missed the Walcheren Expedition and the battle of Waterloo, in both cases due to sickness. He transferred to the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion in March 1816 and served at Edinburgh until the unit was disbanded later that same year.