Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Pyrenees, Toulouse (J. Brown, Drummer, 5th Foot.) re-affixed copy suspension, top clasp sprung at left, heavy edge bruises, therefore good fine £600-£800

James Brown was born at Plymouth, Devon, and attested there for the 5th Foot on 21 March 1809, aged fourteen. He served ‘9 months in the Peninsula, 11 months in America, 3 years 3 months in France and 7 years in the West Indies, the remainder at Home. Was present at the Battles of Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse.’ He was discharged at Dublin on 7 November 1832, having served 23 years 64 days not counting 4 years service under age. Apart from the period April 1822 to September 1825 when he was a Private, he served throughout as a Drummer.

Sold with copied discharge papers and muster lists covering his service in America when the regiment took part in the attack on Plattsburg.