Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

John Stirr, 27th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (J. Stirr, 27th Foot) two edge bruises, otherwise very fine £1000-1200

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

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Provenance: Glendining, December 1993.

John Stirr was born in the Parish of Emswell, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and enlisted into the 115th Foot on 1 September 1793. He transferred to the 10th Foot on 25 December 1795, and to the 1st Battalion, 27th Foot, on 25 June 1794. He served with the 27th in Egypt in 1801, and was discharged ‘worn out’ at Newport, Isle of Wight, on 29 August 1814, then aged 46. Sold with copied discharge papers.