The Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R.W. Gould, M.B.E. 4
QUEEN’S GERMAN REGIMENT MEDAL OF MERIT 1801, pewter, by Hancock, Kempson and Kindon, obverse, Sphinx with staff bearing British and French flags, ‘EGYPT’ engraved above, ‘XXI MARCH MDCCCI’ in exergue; reverse, ‘QUEEN’S GERMAN REGIMENT’ within a laurel wreath, ‘FRENCH DEFEATED’ engraved on the rim either side of the contemporary loop suspension, 47.8 mm (Balmer R579), very fine and very rare
£500-600 Ex Usher Collection 1975.
This medal was founded to commemorate the recapture of the standard of Napoleon’s ‘Invincibles’ by Private Antoine Lutz of the Queen’s German Regiment, at the battle of Aboukir in Egypt in 1801, after it had been lost by Sergeant Sinclair of the 42nd Foot. Lutz himself was permitted to wear a representation of the standard within a wreath of laurel on his right sleeve.
William Cobbett, in a report on the capture of the standard, quotes from the order establishing this award, ‘... as soon as the regiment is in an established quarter, he will institute a valuable badge , in a certain proportion per company, to be worn by such men as shall have been proved, upon sufficient testimony, to have distinguished themselves, by acts of valour, or by personal instances of meritorious service ...’
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (J. Ferriday, Corporal, 7th Light Dragoons) severe edge bruising and scratching over initial part of naming, therefore good fine
£600-800
John Ferriday was born in the Parish of Warnbridge, Shropshire, and enlisted for the 7th Hussars on 18 September 1804, aged nineteen. He was discharged at Romford Barracks on 8 August 1814, in consequence of ‘ulcerated legs from the effect of the frost while in Spain in the year 1808 and being of a scrophulous habit of body’. Sold with copied discharge papers.
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (L. Griese, 2nd Bn. 60th Foot) small edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare
£2000-2500
Only 2 officers and 8 other ranks of the 2nd 60th Foot received the M.G.S. Medal.
Ludwig Griese (sometimes Gross or Grosse) was born in Magdeburg, Prussia, in about 1780 and was 27 years old when he was enlisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig Mosheim for seven years service in the 60th Regiment of Foot, on 28 November 1807. He had served a total of 9 years and 20 days with the colours at the time of his discharge on 17 December 1816, including over 6 years in the West Indies. Griese returned home to Germany, eventually settling in Minden, and, from February 1817, started to receive a pension as an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. Sold with detailed research including copy discharge papers.
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (M. Mahon, Majr. Royal York Rangers) together with original Horse Guards forwarding letter addressed to ‘Major General Mathew Mahon, formerly of Roy. Yk. Rang.’, dark toned, extremely fine and scarce £2000-2500
Matthew Mahon was appointed Ensign in the 16th Foot on 31 December 1789, aged 18 years. He became a Lieutenant in May 1891, a Captain in September 1795, and a Major in November 1805, when he exchanged to the half-pay. He returned to full-pay as a Major in the Royal York Rangers in August 1808, and served with that regiment in the West Indies, including the capture of Guadaloupe in 1810. Advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1812, he was placed on half-pay once more on his corps being disbanded in 1818. He became a Major-General in June 1838, and died at Brighton on 18 March 1851.
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