Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, St. Sebastian (Sergt. R. Murphy, 59th Foot.) engraved rank added later, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals formed by the late Fred Rockwood.

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Ex Glendining’s January 1943.

Roger Murphy was born at Castlebar, County Mayo, circa 1797. He enlisted into the 59th Foot on 31 March 1812, aged 15 years. He was discharged on 5 October 1814 in consequence of ‘having been wounded in the thigh by a grape-shot at the storming of St Sebastian on the 31st August 1813’. The pension register records that it was a ‘blooming great object’.