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

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Michael Lyons, 95th Foot) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £2000-2500

Michael Lyons was born in the Parish of St Johns, Limerick, and enlisted into the 95th Rifles at Naas, County Kildare, on 11 November 1810, aged 20 years. He was discharged at Gosport on 30 March 1819, in consequence of a reduction in the establishment. His conduct was described as ‘good’, and ‘he has served in the Peninsula and was wounded at Badajoz.’ He was then provided with the sum of five pounds, seventeen shillings and seven pence, to enable him to take his wife and two children to Liverpool for embarkation for Ireland and thence to return to Limerick, the place of his enlistment. Lyons was admitted as an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Hospital in October 1846, and died there on 17 May 1862. Sold with copy discharge papers.