Lot Archive

Lot

№ 456

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£1,700

Waterloo 1815 (Miles Marley, 32nd Regiment Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise good fine £1400-1600

Also entitled to M.G.S. medal with four clasps for Roleia, Vimiers, Corunna, and Toulouse, which was with Baldwin’s in 1953.

Miles Marley was born in the Parish of Clogher, Co. Tyrone, and enlisted for the 32nd Foot at Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, on 17 March 1801, aged 22 years. He was discharged at Corfu on 31 January 1819, in consequence of length of service and reduction in the regiment. Sold with copy discharge papers.