Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Busaco, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (George Walker, 61st Foot) fitted with copy carriage and clasps, brooch marks to obverse, fine £200-250

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

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George Walker was born at Darlington and enlisted into the 61st Foot on 27 August 1803, aged 27 years. He was discharged on 26 June 1816, in consequence of ‘a wound in the leg.’ His discharge papers record the fact that he was wounded in the right leg at Talavera and the musters for that period show him as wounded and then as prisoner of war. Despite this he was not allowed the clasp for Talavera. Sold with copy discharge papers and full details of this medal’s restoration and reconstitution in 1999.