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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 307

Field Officer´s Small Army Gold Medal for Orthes (Major Hon.ble Edwd. Mullens, 28th Foot.),gilded, with replacement lunettes, good very fine, with gold riband buckle, original riband and a fine colour miniature portrait of the recipient on ivory, this in a gold and gilt metal glazed oval frame, the reverse engraved ´Major The Honble Edward Mullens. 28th Regt.´ (lot) Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 Major The Honourable Edward Mullins, born 1777, the 5th son of Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Kerry, Ireland (cr. 1800); commissioned Lieutenant 28th Foot, September 1795; advanced Brevet Major June 1813; Major September 1813, ´served in Spain and Portugal, and received a medal for the battle of Orthes, at which he commanded some light companies.´ (Royal Military Calendar 1820, Vol. V., refers); died 1841. For the medals awarded to Major General T.A. de Moleyns, the grandson of Major the Hon. Edward Mullins, see Lot 206.

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