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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 974

Military General Service 1793-1814, seven clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D´Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Thos. Burke, 42nd Foot.), suspension slack, good very fine Estimate £ 1,700-2,100 Private Thomas Burke, born Blantyre, Lanark, Scotland; a weaver by trade; enlisted in the 42nd Foot, 1807; wounded at Burgos; discharged 1814; died 1871. Provenance: Ex-Huxstep Collection. A signed Catalogue of the D. Huxstep Collection of Medals to the Black Watch is included with the lot.

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