Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, St. Sebastian, Orthes, Toulouse (George Barden, Royal Arty.) lower clasp carriage slightly buckled and suspension a little slack, otherwise lacquered, very fine £900-1200

George Barden was born at Goodhurst, Kent, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery on 4 May 1807, aged 22 years . He served as a Gunner and was discharged from the 1st Battalion R.A. on 30 April 1816, in consequence of ‘being wounded in the thigh in Spain & admitted on the Pension List at 9d per day from 1 May 1816.’