Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (J. Haywood, R. Arty.) minor marks, otherwise good very fine £800-£1,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, May 1936 and April 1950; Sotheby’s, November 1986.

John Haywood was born in the Parish of Dennington, Yorkshire, and served in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, ‘honestly & faithfully for the space of Twenty One Years and Ten Months, but being placed on the Pension List at One Shilling per Diem is by Order of the Lieutenant General of the Ordnance is hereby discharged’, dated Woolwich, 31 December 1810. Gunner Haywood served in Egypt with Spicer’s Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Artillery. Sold with copied discharge papers.