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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 191

Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps, Busaco, Pyrenees, Toulouse (A. Sutherland, 42nd. Foot.), top right clasp facing sprung and re-soldered, edge bruising, very fine

Sergeant Alexander Sutherland, born Croy, Inverness, Scotland, 1769; enlisted in the 42nd Royal Highlanders, February 1792; served with the 1st Battalion during the Peninsula Campaign and severely wounded at the Battle of Toulouse, 10.4.1814, in which the 42nd suffered 425 Officers and men killed or wounded, the heaviest casualties of any Regiment for this action; discharged due to wounds, September 1814, after 22 years and 227 days with the Colours, of which 11 years were as a Sergeant.

Provenance: Glendining, July 1940

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,600