Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Egypt, Maida (Jas. McHugh, 27th Foot.) two small edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £1,800-£2,200

Payne Collection 2918; Elson Collection, Glendining’s, February 1963; Spink, June 1985.

James McHugh was born in the Parish of Derryvullen, near Enniskilling, County Fermanagh, and enlisted for the 27th Foot at Enniskilling on 27 December 1798, aged 24, for unlimited service. He served 18 years 149 days and was discharged at Dublin to a Kilmainham Hospital pension on 24 May 1817, in consequence of ‘being worn out from length of service’.

Sold with copied discharge papers.

Sold with a two-prong silver ribbon buckle