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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 7

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz (Jas Fitzgerald, Lieut 77th Foot.), good very fine

Provenance:
Glendinning's, October 1952.

James Fitzgerald is confirmed upon the Roll with entitlement to these two clasps for his service as a junior officer in the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War. In addition to their gallant conduct at the Battle of El Bodon (25 September 1811) the regiment played an active part in the siege operations and subsequent stormings of both Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and it appears that Fitzgerald - then Ensign - was wounded on the former occasion (Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments: 77th Regiment of Foot (East Middlesex), refers).

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Sold for
£2,400

Starting price
£800