Campaign Groups and Pairs 282
Pair: Private Angus McKay, 79th Foot
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse (Angus McKay, 79th Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (Angus M’Kay, 1st Batt. 79th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, the second with edge bruising and contact marks, fine, the first nearly very fine (2)
£2,800-£3,200 Provenance: Pair sold at Glendining’s in 1974 and 1978 but possibly a composite pair.
M.G.S. confirmed on roll as ‘Mackay’. Two men of this name present with the regiment at Waterloo, both in Captain James Campbell’s Company No. 6, one of whom was severely wounded, the other slightly wounded.
The only papers found relate to one Angus McKay who was born in the Parish of Tongue, Dornoch, Sutherland and enlisted into the 79th at Dundee, Forfar, on 6 November 1802, aged 26. Whilst this man was present in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where he was slightly wounded in the head and hand, his discharge papers record that, in addition to the five clasps on the above medal, he was also present at Corunna and Fuentes D’Onor, and was severely wounded in the left arm at Busaco 27 September 1810. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant at Dublin on 27 June 1821, but the date of his death is unknown.
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A scarce Napoleonic Wars group of three awarded to Private J. Gosnell, 42nd Highlanders, who was severely wounded at Toulouse, and by a lance at Waterloo
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Jas. Giosnell, 42nd. Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (James Gosnell, 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry.) with hinged silver straight bar suspension; 42nd Foot Medal 1819, by Parkes, 32mm, silver, the obverse featuring St. Andrew with his cross at top, legend above, ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacessit’, with soldiers marching through mountainous country below, the reverse featuring the winged figure of Fame above the battle honours, ‘Corunna, Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula’, with ‘42 R. H.Rt.’ below, the edge impressed (Js. Gosnell) with hinged silver straight bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better and a scarce group (3)
£4,000-£5,000 Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1940 and September 1953.
James Gosnell was born in Durrus, co. Cork, and attested for the 42nd Highlanders at Limerick on 14 May 1811, aged 25, having previously served as a volunteer in the South Cork Militia. He served with the Regiment in the Peninsula, and in Captain Alexander Fraser’s Company during the Waterloo campaign, 16-18 June 1815, and was discharged on 24 August 1821 on reduction of the Regiment, after 12 years and 103 days’ service. His discharge papers state that he ‘was severely wounded in the side at Toulouse - also received a [wound] from a lance in the right leg at Waterloo and has been frequently in hospital at Clonmel with pulmonic complaints.’ These papers bear the stamp ‘Royal Kilmainham Hospital 12 Sep 21’.
Gosnell subsequently re-enlisted at Naas, co. Kildare, into the 1st Royal Regiment of Veterans on 25 December 1821, and served in that regiment until its disbandment on 24 April 1826, after a further 4 years and 121 days’ service.
Sold with a 42nd Highlanders badge and copied research.
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