Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse (William Stewart, 79th Foot) repairs to carriage and rivets and the Busaco clasp a copy, edge bruising and polished, therefore nearly very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, 1974; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000.

58 Egypt clasps to the 79th and only five medals with 9 clasps, the maximum entitlement to the regiment.

William Stewart was also present at Waterloo where he was severely wounded in the thigh on the 18th June 1815. His papers show that he was born at Kincardine, near Downe, Perthshire, and that he enlisted into the 79th Foot, at the age of 26, on 26 April 1805. This is clearly too late for him to have been in Egypt with the 79th but his discharge papers also refer to service ‘in other Corps, after the age of Eighteen’. However, his name is included on a separate medal roll for the 79th showing entitlement to the Egypt clasp.