Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Corunna, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nive, Toulouse (W. Griffiths, 23rd. Foot.) edge drilled at 6 o’clock, suspension claw re-affixed with later suspension bar, edge bruising, very fine £1,500-£2,000

Provenance: Spink, December 2001.

William Griffiths was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, and attested for the 23rd Regiment of Foot in March 1804, aged 24. He served with the Regiment in the Peninsula, and was wounded in the leg at Albuhera, 16 May 1811. He was discharged in January 1815.

Sold with copied medal roll extract.