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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 324

A Fine and Well Documented M.G.S. to Sergeant G. Kinch, 14th Light Dragoons, Later Yeoman Warder, H.M. Tower of London, Who Served With the Regiment Throughout The Peninsular and in North America, Was Wounded at Oporto, and Received the Maximum Number of Clasps to the Regiment
Military General Service 1793-1814, eleven clasp, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (G. Kinch, Serjeant, 14th. Light Dragoons.), minor edge bruise, good very fine, together with the following parchment documents:
- The recipient's Parchment Certificate on discharge
- The recipient's Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Out-Pensioner's document
- Document appointing George Kinch a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, dated 14.3.1832, and counter-signed 'Wellington'
- Document appointing George Kinch a Yeoman of the Guard, dated 6.5.1836
- Document appointing George Kinch Bell Ringer and Clock Keeper of the Tower of London, dated 23.12.1837
- Document granting George Kinch a house in the Tower of London, dated 5.12.1843

Sergeant George Kinch, born Havant, Hampshire; enlisted in the 14th Light Dragoons, April 1805; served with the Regiment in the Peninsular for five and a half years, wounded in the left arm at Oporto, and present at every action that the Regiment was involved in during the Campaign; subsequently served with the Regiment in North America; discharged, March 1832, after 26 years and 327 days with the Colours; subsequently appointed a Yeoman Warder at HM Tower of London, and appointed the Tower's Bell Keeper and Clock Keeper.

One Officer and 17 men of the 14th Light Dragoons received the M.G.S. with 11 clasps (all as issued to George Kinch), the maximum number of clasps awarded to the Regiment.

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