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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 490

†Military General Service 1793-1814, six clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (James Pye, 40th Foot), light contact marks, edge bruising, very fine Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 Corporal James Pye, born Hexam, Devon; discharged 5.9.1821, after serving 18 years and 73 days with the Regiment, 'in consequence of being worn out.....he served in South America, the Peninsula, North America and was wounded slightly in the head at Talavera and had his leg broken at Monte Video removing Great Guns'; also served in Captain P. Bishop's Company in the Waterloo campaign; discharge papers refer. Provenance Spink March 1973, No. 2816

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