Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (Danl. Jones. 81st Regt.) very fine £1,000-£1,200

Provenance: Glendining’s, May 1911.

Daniel Jones was born in the Parish of Glamongall, Carmarthenshire, and originally enlisted into the 43rd Foot in about 1797, before transferring at a later date to the 81st Foot. He was discharged at Messina, in Sicily, on 24 March 1808, having been ‘found by a Military & Medical Board unfit for service from a fractured leg by accident on or about the 17th May 1807 at the Citadel of Messina.’ He had served a total of 10 years in the 43rd and 81st Regiments, and was granted a pension of 9d per day at Chelsea Hospital, increased to 1s on 4 June 1861. Sold with copied discharge papers and a copy of The Battle of Maida 1806 by Richard Hopton, London, 2002.