SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 22
MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (William Glass, 5th Foot) edge bruising, nearly very fine
£1200-1500 Ex Gaskill Collection 1911; Manson Collection 1915; Muirhead Collection 1950.
William Glass was born in Sandfords, Devon. He enlisted into the 5th Foot at Exeter on 24 November 1805, aged 18 years. With the regiment he served in the Peninsular War, first seeing action at the battle of Busaco, 27 September 1810; his last action being at Toulouse, 10 April 1814. After the war he served in the West Indies, April 1819-April 1826. He was discharged in November 1826 as a consequence of chronic rheumatism and impaired constitution resulting from his extended service in the West Indies.
First five clasps listed in Mullen; medal believed to have been returned to Mint in 1849 for the addition of the ‘Toulouse’ clasp. With copied (indistinct) service papers and roll extract - this showing his full clasp entitlement.
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MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (R. Casey, Farrier, 14th Light Dragoons) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine
£3000-3500
Only 14 Farriers shown on the medal rolls for the various cavalry and artillery regiments.
Richard Casey was born at Tallow, Co. Waterford, and attested for the 14th Light Dragoons at Guildford on 22 February 1805, aged 15, by trade a blacksmith. He ‘served five and a half years in the Peninsula, and was present with the regiment in its several engagements and skirmishes from May 1809, until the Battle of Toulouse 1814’. He was discharged on 11 August 1832, in consequence of a bad rupture of the left side. Admitted as an In-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital in January 1864, he reverted in October 1865 on family business and was re- admitted in April 1872, dying there on 27 May 1875. Sold with copied discharge papers.
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The important 13 clasp M.G.S. medal to Corporal Henry Backefeld, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion, orderly to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, and awarded the Guelphic Medal for bravery at El Boden, Vittoria and Toulouse
MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 13 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Henry Backefeld, Corpl. 1st Hussars, K.G.L.) very fine and very rare
£15000-20000
From the Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R. W. Gould, M.B.E.
Corporal Henry Backefeld was awarded the Guelphic Medal in the 1819 List:
“Was during four years continuously, orderly to the Duke of Wellington, and distinguished himself, as well by his exemplary conduct in general, as by his bravery. He furnished a proof of the latter at El Boden: The Duke of Wellington had given orders that Major General Victor von Alten’s brigade should attack the enemy as soon as they had arrived at a certain point, and rode, with his staff, some distance to the rear, from whence he could have a clear view of the action. As soon as Backefeld saw that his regiment were about to attack, he begged permission from the Duke to join his comrades, which was granted, and hurrying to his squadron he fought in every charge that it made during the day. At the battle of Vittoria, on the 21st June 1813, while acting as orderly to the Duke of Wellington, who was always at the head of his army, he captured two French dragoons, who came too near to the Duke’s staff. In the battle of Toulouse, 12th April 1814, Backefeld rushed out from among the Duke of Wellington’s staff, and liberated an English officer, who was attacked by two French cavalry soldiers - cutting one of them from his horse, and making the other prisoner, although wounded himself” (Ref Beamish p503-504).
Backefeld was invalided in 1814 as a result of wounds, one of which at least being gained in defending the Duke. His medal bears the maximum number of clasps gained by a member of the King’s German Legion, the only other recipient of 13 clasps being Gunner Fellersman of the King’s German Artillery.
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