Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera (John Gee, 48th Foot.) good very fine £1400-1600

John Gee was born at Brackley, Northamptonshire, and joined the 2/48th Foot at Chelmsford, Essex, on 27 August 1807, a volunteer from the Northamptonshire Militia in which he had served since 11 March 1803. He was a labourer by trade and received a bounty of 5 guineas. The regiment suffered badly at Talavera with 326 casualties and the remnants of the 2nd Battalion were consequently transferred to the 1st Battalion. The 1/48th had a further 422 men killed or wounded at Albuhera, including John Gee who was wounded in the hand. In all subsequent musters he is shown as ‘sick absent’ in Spain until December 1811 when he was discharged and admitted to a pension of 6d per day on account of having ‘wounded hand at Albuhera’. Shown as residing in Coventry, he died on 17 June 1855.

Sold with full research including copied pay lists and Chelsea Hospital Admission Book entry.