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Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (Richard Burton, 76th Foot.) two edge bruises, otherwise nearly very fine £800-£1,000

Richard Burton was born in the Parish of Trowell, Nottinghamshire, and enlisted into the 76th Foot at Nottingham on 10 September 1806, aged 24 years, a tailor by trade. He served with the regiment as garrison troop at Jersey in 1807, in northern Spain in 1808, and with Moore at Corunna in 1809, in Captain Gaff’s Company. The 76th afterwards took part in the ill-fated Walcheren Expedition before returning briefly to the Peninsula and, in 1814, to North America where they took part in the battle of Plattsburg. He afterwards served with the 76th in Canada as garrison troops at Fort Henry in 1818-19 and 1821. Burton was discharged at Quebec on 13 May 1821, in consequence of ‘being unfit for service and paralytic affliction of the lower extremities. He was invalided to England where he was finally discharged on 11 September 1821. He was admitted to a Chelsea Hospital out-pension of 9d per diem on the following day, after 15 years service. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.