Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (Joseph Gardiner, 7th Foot.) replacement clasp retaining rod, light rubbing to edge and signs of brooch fittings removed from edge at 4 o’clock, 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock, probably expertly reconstituted, otherwise good very fine and an attractive medal nonetheless £1,800-£2,200

Whalley Collection 1875; Spink N.C., May 1974.

Joseph Gardner was born in the Parish of Ennis, County Clare, and enlisted into the 7th Royal Fusiliers at Limerick on 13 October 1807, aged sixteen for life, a musician by occupation. His discharge papers also note that ‘Private Joseph Gardner enlisted in the Galway Militia about 1800 in Mullingar’. He was discharged at Manchester on 24 February 1825, in consequence of being ‘undersize’ at just under 5 feet 5 inches in height. He was granted a pension of 7d per diem and resided in Dumfries.

Sold with copied discharge papers.