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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 64

A scarce Military General Service Medal awarded to Private P. Haines, 59th Foot, who was wounded during the storming of Fort Cornelis on 26 August 1811

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (P. Haines, 59th. Foot.), good very fine

Patrick Haines was born at Fethard, County Tipperary, c.1789. A labourer by trade, he enlisted in the 59th Foot in October 1807. Haines served with the Regiment in Java and was wounded at the storming of Fort Cornelis on 26 August 1811. He was discharged in November 1815, after 8 years and 44 days with the Colours.

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, November 1910.
Glendining's, March 1927.
Spink, 1976.

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Sold for
£1,200