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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 126

Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees (Jonathan Tilly, 32nd Foot), edge bruising, otherwise good very fine Estimate £ 1,600-1,800 Private Jonathan Tilly (Tiley) born Colerne, near Bath, Somerset; enlisted 32nd Foot 1805 and was ´wounded by a shell in action at the siege of Burgos 1812 and also by a musket ball in the upper part of the right thigh at Pampeluna in 1813´ (Service papers refer); discharged due to wounds and length of service, 1826. Provenance: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927 Leyland Robinson Collection 1953

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