Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 425

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (Owen Mooney, 5th Dragoon Guards) good very fine £800-1000

On 11 April 1812, after a forced march of 60 miles, the 5th Dragoon Guards attacked a force three times its number of French cavalry at Llerena, and, in company with the light brigade, put them to flight. The battle of Salamanca was fought in the following July, when the 5th D.G. captured the staff of the drum-major of the French 66th Infantry Regiment. They afterwards fought at the battles of Vittoria and Toulouse, at which last battle the 5th Dragoon Guards were instrumental in saving the Portuguese guns from capture.

Owen Mooney was born in the Parish of Tillacorbett, County Monaghan, and enlisted for the 5th Dragoon Guards on 11 January 1801. He was transferred to the 5th Royal Regiment of Veterans on 25 June 1815, and finally discharged due to ‘reduction and fractured knee’ on 24 May 1816, aged 42 years. He was probably the brother of Edward Mooney, a sergeant in the same regiment. Sold with copy discharge papers.