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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 6

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (J. Whitmore, Serjt 1st Foot Gds), mounted court-style on card for display, sometime laquered, good very fine

Provenance:
Hayward's, March 1973.

John Whitmore, a native of Warrington in Lancashire, served in the 1st Foot Guards with the rank of Sergeant and was discharged, aged 44 and still in that rank, on 22 September 1814, to become an Out-Pensioner at the Royal Military Hospital Chelsea.

During the Corunna campaign, both First and Second battalions of the 1st Foot Guards served together in Major-General Henry Warde's Brigade, part of Lieutenant-General Sir David Baird's 1st Division. At the Battle of Corunna, on 16 January 1809, the Guards were initially in reserve before being personally committed to the hand-to-hand fight for the village of Elvina by the army commander, General Sir John Moore - it was just after this moment that Moore received his mortal wound.

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£600