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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 16

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Fuentes D'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Peter Burke, 88th Foot.) some edge bruising, light contact marks, toned very fine

Provenance:
D.N.W. June 2006, 'Peninsula War Medals from the Collection of the late A.L.T. Mullen'.

Peter Burke was born in the parish of Killasar, Westport, Co. Mayo and enlisted into the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), for life, at Dumfries on 22 April 1805, at the age of 23 - being noted with previous service of one year 278 days in the 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot.
Serving with the hard-fighting 'Devil's Own' from Fuentes de Onoro in 1811 through to Toulouse in 1814, Burke was discharged on 14 October 1820 as a consequence of: 'being worn out from service and right eye injured'. In January 1821 he enlisted with the 6th Royal Veteran Battalion at Sheerness, Kent, but was discharged only a month later upon the reduction of that unit. Interestingly, he is noted as being a recipient of the 88th Foot Order of Merit Second Class (Regimental and Volunteer Medals 1745-1895, Vol. 1, R523b, p. 241 refers) and he is one of only two members of the regiment to claim this number and combination of clasps.


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£2400