Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

James Haslam, 34th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Toulouse (J. Haslam, 34th Foot.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, edge bruise and light contact marks, otherwise very fine
£1400-1600

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

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Provenance: Sotheby, July 1996; Dixon, November 2000.

James Haslam was born at Bolton, Lancaster, and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 34th Foot, at Plymouth on 3 April 1809, aged 28, for unlimited service. He was discharged at Dublin in consequence of deafness and recommended for a pension at Royal Kilmainham Hospital - ‘he served with the Battn. during the whole of the campaigns in the Peninsula’.

Sold with copied discharge papers.