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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 91

Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Talavera (W. Alvey, 23rd. L. Dns.), good very fine

Corporal William Alvey, born Nottingham, 1787; enlisted 23rd Light Dragoons, July 1806; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from 1809 and was ‘wounded left leg at Talavera and disabled shoulder from fall from horse being shot under him’ (Service Papers refer) during the Regiment's disasterous charge at the Battle of Talavera, 28.7.1809, in which the Regiment suffered 102 Officers and men killed and wounded, and 105 taken prisoner, a loss of nearly 50%, on what was the last occasion that British cavalry regiment carried its Colours into action; promoted Corporal, December 1813; discharged, August 1814; died Nottingham, April 1854.

Provenance: Sotheby, February 1912
Leyland Robinson Collection, 1952
Thornton Collection, 1956
Glendining, 1983.

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