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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 498

Field Officer's Small Army Gold Medal for Corunna (Major Chichester Mc.Donnell, 82nd. Foot), good very fine, glazed in lunettes, the reverse lunette a replacement, with original gold riband buckle

Lieutenant-Colonel Chichester McDonnell, born Scotland; promoted Captain, Fifth West India Regiment of Foot, July 1797; Major, March 1804; transferred to 82nd (Prince of Wales' Volunteers) Regiment of Foot, August 1804; served at the Battle of Corunna, 16.1.1809, when the 1/82nd Regiment were part of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division under the command of the Lieutenant-General A. G. Fraser; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1809; transferred 34th Foot, and commanded the 1st Battalion in India, 1809-11; died 1811.

Provenance:
Barnet Collection, Glendining 1963

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