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Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca,...
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Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Samuel Bennett, 23rd Foot.) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £2,000-£2,400
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Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1999.
Samuel Bennett was born in the Parish of Litton, near Derby, and attested for the 23rd Foot at Stockport, Chester, on 6 July 1807, aged 18, a stocking weaver by trade. He was discharged on 13 November 1832, after 25 years 133 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo. He served ‘in the campaign under Lt. Genl. Sir J. Moor K.B. in the Expedition to Walcheren under the Earl of Chatham, joined the 1st Battn. in the Peninsula in 1812 and continued to serve in that country & the South of France till the end of the War in 1814 having been present at the following Battles and Sieges, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampluna when he was severely wounded in the breast & slightly in the shoulder, Orthes & Toulouse. In the campaign of 1815 & was present at the Battle of Waterloo - afterwards served six years in Gibraltar and one year in Portugal.’
Sold with copied discharge papers.
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Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1999.
Samuel Bennett was born in the Parish of Litton, near Derby, and attested for the 23rd Foot at Stockport, Chester, on 6 July 1807, aged 18, a stocking weaver by trade. He was discharged on 13 November 1832, after 25 years 133 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo. He served ‘in the campaign under Lt. Genl. Sir J. Moor K.B. in the Expedition to Walcheren under the Earl of Chatham, joined the 1st Battn. in the Peninsula in 1812 and continued to serve in that country & the South of France till the end of the War in 1814 having been present at the following Battles and Sieges, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampluna when he was severely wounded in the breast & slightly in the shoulder, Orthes & Toulouse. In the campaign of 1815 & was present at the Battle of Waterloo - afterwards served six years in Gibraltar and one year in Portugal.’
Sold with copied discharge papers.
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Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Samuel Bennett, 23rd Foot.) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £2,000-£2,400
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Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1999.
Samuel Bennett was born in the Parish of Litton, near Derby, and attested for the 23rd Foot at Stockport, Chester, on 6 July 1807, aged 18, a stocking weaver by trade. He was discharged on 13 November 1832, after 25 years 133 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo. He served ‘in the campaign under Lt. Genl. Sir J. Moor K.B. in the Expedition to Walcheren under the Earl of Chatham, joined the 1st Battn. in the Peninsula in 1812 and continued to serve in that country & the South of France till the end of the War in 1814 having been present at the following Battles and Sieges, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampluna when he was severely wounded in the breast & slightly in the shoulder, Orthes & Toulouse. In the campaign of 1815 & was present at the Battle of Waterloo - afterwards served six years in Gibraltar and one year in Portugal.’
Sold with copied discharge papers.
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Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1999.
Samuel Bennett was born in the Parish of Litton, near Derby, and attested for the 23rd Foot at Stockport, Chester, on 6 July 1807, aged 18, a stocking weaver by trade. He was discharged on 13 November 1832, after 25 years 133 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo. He served ‘in the campaign under Lt. Genl. Sir J. Moor K.B. in the Expedition to Walcheren under the Earl of Chatham, joined the 1st Battn. in the Peninsula in 1812 and continued to serve in that country & the South of France till the end of the War in 1814 having been present at the following Battles and Sieges, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampluna when he was severely wounded in the breast & slightly in the shoulder, Orthes & Toulouse. In the campaign of 1815 & was present at the Battle of Waterloo - afterwards served six years in Gibraltar and one year in Portugal.’
Sold with copied discharge papers.
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