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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1322

x Field Officer´s Gold Medal for Nivelle (Major John Walmsley, 1st. Bn. 82nd. Foot), nearly extremely fine, with lunettes and top gold riband buckle, in fitted leather case, together with two fine colour miniature portraits of the recipient on ivory, these housed in leather cases, and a black etching of the recipient´s sweetheart, Elizabeth Hyde (lot) Estimate £ 7,000-9,000 Major John Batten Walmsley, born Rochester, Kent, March 1766; married Elizabeth Hyde, November 1796; Commissioned Ensign, 1799; Joined the 82nd Foot, May 1805; advanced Major, August 1813; died Omagh, Ireland, January 1819.

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