SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 336
MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse ( Wm. Caldwell, 71st Foot) some contact marks, otherwise very fine
£700-800
William Caldwell was a 'Weaver' from Glasgow. The Muster Rolls of the period show that he first joined the 2nd Battalion 71st Foot at Glasgow in 1811 where he mustered as a 'Boy' soldier. He transferred to the 1st Battalion 71st Foot on 24 January 1814, and served with the battalion in the field at Toulouse. He continued to serve with the regiment in No 6 Company, through to his discharge at Chester Castle on 12 February 1820, when his period of service had expired.
Sold with copy muster rolls and copied extract from medal roll.
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First recorded at Sotheby in May 1910. MILITARYGENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Egypt, Vittoria, Nive (J. Brown, 3rd Foot Guards) traces of brooch marks to
obverse, polished, good fine £700-900
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (John Foster, 20th Foot) good very fine
£1200-1400
John Foster was born in Blackmore, Essex and was christened there on 13 April 1788. Employed as a Labourer, he was recruited into the 20th Foot from the West Essex Militia and served from 1809 until discharged in 1816. He subsequently made a successful claim for a four-clasp Military General Service Medal.
The entry for John Foster in the published M.G.S. roll states, ‘St. Helena as Clr. Sjt.’ The lot is sold with copied research which indicates that there were two ‘John Fosters’ in the regiment and that the man who subsequently served on St. Helena died in service in 1825.
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive (Wm. A. Raynes, Lieut. R. Arty.) in its named card box of issue, dark toned, extremely fine
£3000-3500
Sold with a quantity of original documents including his hand-written ‘Journal of the Campaign and Siege of Tarifa 1811-1812’; hand- written ‘Brigade Orders 31 Decr. 1811 & 5 & 9 Jany. 1812’ concerning the Defence of Tarifa and signed by Colonel J. B. Skerrett; a parchment bound pocket book ‘taken out of a French soldier’s knapsack at Vittoria 1813’, in which he continues his ‘Journal’ from May 1813 to July 1814, also containing numerous notes and various letters, many pages used by Lieutenant Raynes to record various routes of march, etc.; detailed statements of the services of Brevet Major W. A. Raynes; an original ‘field order’ from Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Frazer, dated 22 February 1814, instructing that Lieutenant Raynes ‘with 3 non comd. officers and four gunners with spikes will cross with the first Party and spike the guns of the battery at the mouth of the Adour, which being accomplished Lt. Raynes will return to the left bank of the Adour and take charge of the Rocket Detachts. on that side...’, with subsequent notes by Raynes listing the names of the bombardiers and gunners that successfully performed this task; a manuscript notebook kept by Lieutenant Raynes containing various ‘Scraps’ and ‘Original Anecdotes &c’, signed and dated twice, 1816 and 1823; and a book ‘Picked up on the field at the Battle of Vittoria 21st June 1813’ by Lieutenant Raynes, titled Aide-Mémoire a l’usage des Officiers D’Artillerie de France, Paris, 1809.
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