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№ 557

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11 October 2023

Hammer Price:
£1,300

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Albuhera (Wm. Lancaster, 23rd Foot.) naming a little rubbed and probably removed from a circular mount and reconstituted, collector’s number ‘788’ impressed near claw, nearly very fine £600-£800

Debenham’s, June 1899; Spink 1899, 1904 and 1908; Glendining’s, May 1922; Morton & Eden, December 2005, ‘officially renamed’.

William Lancaster was admitted to a late pension and is noted as having been wounded at Martinique and Albuhera (WO 116/60 refers). He was admitted to an out-pension of 6d per diem on 10 August 1853, Manchester District, and died on 10 November 1867, aged 67 (WO 22/68 & 69).