Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: John Salter, 59th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, St. Sebastian (John Salter, 59th Foot); Waterloo 1815 (John Salter, 2nd Batt. 59th Reg. Foot) fitted with contemporary silver claw, wide suspension and uninscribed silver clasp to match the first, contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (2) £1800-2200

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

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John Salter was born at Norwich, Norfolk, circa 1791, and enlisted into the 59th Foot on 3 October 1812, aged 21 years. The musters for September 1813 show him as sick at St Sebastian, probably wounded. He was present with the regiment at Waterloo, where the 2nd 59th formed part of Colville’s reserve division. He survived the wreck of the transport Lord Melville on 30 January 1816, and was discharged at Kinsale on 27 March 1816, in consequence of ‘want of voice from a wound in the throat’, presumably at St Sebastian. Sold with copy discharge papers and muster details.