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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 4

94th Foot, Scotch Brigade Medal c.1816, Type A, by J. Parkes, obverse: elephant with crown above, with inscription, ‘Scotch Brigade’, below, sprigs of thistle and ‘XCIV’; reverse: Battle Honours with dates within two branches of laurel - ‘Fuentes d’Onor, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nevillie, Neive, Orthes, Toulouse’ (Alexr. Drummond), 36mm., silver, with hinged straight-bar suspension, this gilt and engraved ‘Peninsula’, good very fine

Ex-James N Spencer Collection, April 2004.

Reference Sources: Balmer R.545a, Tancred p.349/50, H.I. p. 280.

Alexander Drummond was not entitled to the Military General Service Medal. He had previously served in the Fraser Fencibles and latterly was an In-Pensioner at Kilmainham.

The 94th Foot (Scotch Brigade) was raised in 1803 and disbanded in 1818. The 94th Foot was reformed in 1823 and later became the 2nd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers.

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