A Collection of Awards to the Worcestershire Regiment formed by Group Captain J. E. Barker

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (George Atkinson, 36th Foot.) nearly very fine £2600-3000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Worcestershire Regiment formed by Group Captain J. E. Barker.

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Provenance: Murray Collection 1891, Sotheby, May 1826; G. Hamilton Smith Collection, Glendining’s, March 1926; Sotheby, September 1994.

George Atkinson was born in the Parish of Spalding, Lincolnshire, and enlisted into the 36th Foot at Hull on 22 April 1805, for unlimited service, aged 21 years, a labourer by trade. He served with the regiment at Monte Video in 1807, and in the Peninsula 1808-09 and 1811-14. He was discharged at Dublin on 31 October 1827, in consequence of length of service and being worn out, and was admitted to an out-pension at Chelsea Hospital on 12 December 1827. Sold with copied discharge papers and full muster list details.