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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 22

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (J. Dodd, Coldstm. Guards), suspension rather crudely re-fixed, heavy edge bruising and contact wear, therefore fine and extremely rare

Ex-Bill and Angela Strong Collection and previously Sir Torquil Mattheson Bt. (1871-1963) Collection.

Entitled to Talavera in place of Corunna. 2 medals to the Coldstream Guards with the maximum 10 clasps.

Joseph Dodd was born in the Parish of Foreshill, near Coventry, and enlisted for the Coldstream Guards at Bury, Suffolk, on 15 October 1799, aged 19 years old. He served in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie throughout the war in the Peninsula and was a member of Lieutenant-Colonel Acheson's Company in the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Waterloo (Medal), charged with the Defence of Hougoumont. He was discharged in London on 6 March 1817, 'being very infirm and subject to asthma, the effects of service in Egypt and different parts of Europe'; sold together with copy discharge papers.

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Estimate
£2,400 to £2,800

Starting price
£1900