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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 146

Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes (Ralph Close, 24th. Foot.), edge bruise, polished, good very fine Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 17 Private Ralph Close, born Hynton, Co. Durham, 1788; enlisted in the 24th Regiment of Foot, April 1809; served with the 2nd Battalion in the Peninsula and ´states that he was wounded in the neck on the 15th March 1811´ (service papers refer); served with the Regiment in India from July 1815, and took part in the Expedition to Nepal under Major General Sir David Ochterlony, K.C.B., January 1816; transferred to the 13th Regiment of Foot, October 1822; served with the Regiment during the Burma War 1824-26; discharged, July 1832, after serving 23 years and 100 days with the Colours, of which 16 years and 126 days were spent in India.

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