Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (John Jones, 81st Foot) edge bruising, good very fine £1000-1200

Ex Stansfeld 1889; Spink, June 1984 & May 2003; D.N.W. February 1999.

John Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire. He served in the Caithness Fencibles, November 1799-July 1802 and in the 81st Regiment, July 1802-December 1816. Serving in General John Stuart’s expedition to Calabria, Southern Italy, he was present at the battle of Maida, 4 July 1806 where the French forces under the command of General Reynier were defeated. The heaviest casualties in the battle were suffered by the 78th and 81st Regiments. Jones was discharged on 30 December 1816, aged about 43 years, due to ‘pectoral complaints contracted on service in N. America’.

With copied discharge paper and roll extracts.