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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 500

Military General Service 1793-1814, nine clasps, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse (John Langley, 43rd. Foot.), edge bruise, very fine

Private John Langley, born Killishandra, Co. Cavan, Ireland; enlisted in the 43rd Light Infantry, 1804; 'served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, in General Moore’s retreat, and in every Siege, Storm and Action in which the Regiment was engaged in the Peninsula, from the Battle of the Coa, 24th July 1810, to the end of the War in the South of France, served in the Expedition to New Orleans, America, was present at the capitulation of Paris; wounded in the left shoulder at Sabugal, 3rd April 1811' (Service Papers refer); discharged, April 1825, after 21 years with the Colours.

Provenance: Glendining, 1979.

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