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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 485

†Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Maida (Robert Butler, 35th Foot.), edge bruise, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 800-900 Private Robert Butler, 1st Battalion, 35 Foot; born St. Mary's Nottingham; discharged 22.6.1807, after serving seven years and eleven months with the Regiment, 'recommended as a proper object of his Majesty's Royal Bounty of Chelsea Hospital'; ' Army Depot 4th June 1807 'I certify the above mentioned Robert Butler to be unfit for service, from having been wounded in the right hand and belly in the action in Calabria', extracts taken from discharge papers. Provenance J. Barker Collection, Glendining 5.9.1950

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