Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 550

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£3,200

Pair: Private George Faulks, 32nd Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Toulouse (George Faulks, 32nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (George Faulks, 32nd Regiment Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise about nearly very fine (2) £2000-2500

George Faulks was born in the Parish of Finningley, near Coventry, Warwickshire, and enlisted into the 32nd Regiment on 1 February 1808, aged 15 years. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where he was wounded, and was discharged on 9 January 1816, in consequence of a ‘gunshot wound of left leg received in action.’ Sold with copy discharge papers.