Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (John Chatterton, 31st Foot.) good very fine £1,400-£1,800

Baldwin 1920; Glendining’s 1933; Hayward 1971; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000.

John Chatterton was born in the Parish of Middlewich, Cheshire, and enlisted there for the 31st Foot on 25 April 1805, aged 22, for unlimited service. He was discharged at Chatham on 19 January 1827, in consequence of ‘pulmonic affection of long standing and he is worn out.’