Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (Michl. Madding, 63rd Foot.) extremely fine £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Hyde Greg Collection 1887; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000.

39 clasps for Guadaloupe to the 63rd Foot, but only 12 as single clasp medals.

Michael Madding appears on the medal roll as Michael Madding (in Captain Wynn’s Company) but all other records, musters, soldiers documents and pension papers show his surname as Maddin or Madden. He was born at Klintharl, Co. Galway, about 1787 and attested for the 63rd Foot as a volunteer from the Armagh Militia on a lifetime engagement on 27 October 1897. He is recorded as serving in the West Indies at Martinique, Barbados, and in 1813 served as an acting marine in the Army Schooner Maria. He was discharged on 5 January 1816 as a consequence of a fractured thigh while serving in the West Indies and was awarded a Chelsea disability pension on 9d per diem.

Sold with extensive copied research.