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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 499

Military General Service 1793-1814, six clasps, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Toulouse (J. Finnagan, Corporal, Waggon Train.), very fine

Private John Finnagan, born Folksmill, Co. Cork; enlisted in the Waggon Train, October 1808, having previously served in the Commissariat for six years; served in the Peninsula and present at Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle and Toulouse; discharged, August 1814, in consequence of 'a reduction of part of the Corps and likewise having lost an eye from an accident on board a transport while escorting French prisoners from the Peninsula to England in the year 1812', after 11 years and 276 days with the Colours.

Provenance: Kermack Ford Collection, 1884
Glendining, September 1989

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