Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, St. Sebastian, Nive (G. Mitton, 1st Foot Guards) surface marks and polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1,000-£1,400

George Mitton was born in the Parish of Stansfield, Yorkshire, and enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Sunderland, County Durham, on 25 October 1803, aged 18 for unlimited service, a weaver by trade. He served in the Peninsula and also at Waterloo in Lieutenant-Colonel Henry D’Oyly’s Company in the 3rd Battalion. He was discharged on 14 December 1825, in consequence of ‘length of service’, his conduct being described as ‘very irregular.’

Sold with copied discharge papers.