Auction Catalogue

7 December 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 351

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£2,400

Pair: Gunner Adam Jordan, Royal Horse Artillery

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Vittoria (A. Jordon, Gunr. Royal H. Arty.); Waterloo 1815 (Adam Jordan, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, a few letters faint from contact wear on the second, good fine, the first good very fine (2) £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe.

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Adam Jordan was born in the Parish of Irvine, Ayrshire, and enlisted for the Royal Horse Artillery at Glasgow on 3 September 1808, aged 21 years, for a period of unlimited service. He served in James Webber-Smith’s “F” Troop in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, and was discharged at Woolwich on 31 March 1830, being unfit for further service from rheumatic pains in the shoulder and limbs. Sold with copy discharge papers.