Pair: Corporal William McFarlane, 91st Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (William McFarlane, 91st Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William M’Farlane, 1st Batt. 91st Reg. Foot.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension, both with old ribbons and dark toned, the last with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine, the first good very fine (2) £2,000-£2,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic-Era Campaign Medals.

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William McFarlane was born in the Parish of Stirling and enlisted into the 91st Foot on 7 November 1808, a baker by trade, aged about 18 years. He served 11 years 269 days, including 2 years allowance for Waterloo, and was discharged on 24 March 1816, presumably as a result of a reduction in the regiment. McFarlane, however, re-enlisted at Edinburgh on 17 June 1816, now aged 26 years, serving at Home and then in the West Indies from 5 February 1822, being discharged at Falmouth, Jamaica, on 27 December 1827, in consequence of ‘general ill health from repeated attacks of fever.’ He remained in the West Indies until 28 February 1828, his discharge being confirmed at Horse Guards on 11 March 1828.

Sold with copied discharge papers from his second enlistment but which confirm his first period of service.