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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 648

17th Light Dragoons Medal for Military Virtue, silver, obverse, skull and crossbones with the motto, 'Or Glory', with the circumscription, 'Seventeenth Light Dragoons' reverse, within a laurel wreath, 'India, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, St. Domingo', with legend above, 'A Reward for Military Virtue' (Jas. Cockburn), 44mm., with swivel-suspension, good very fine and rare

Listed in Balmer [R96]; two further examples are known, those to Assistant Surgeon John Lorimer and Veterinary Surgeon Edmund Price.

James Cockburn was appointed a Quarter-Master in the 17th Light Dragoons on 13 July 1815.



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