Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Corporal William Cartledge, 34th Foot, who was wounded in the arm at Vittoria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees (W. Cartledge, Corporal, 34th Foot.) small edge bruise, otherwise better than 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: Spink 1893; Debenham’s, December 1897; Sotheby, June 1904; Spink, July 1973.

William Cartledge was born in the Parish of Sheffield, Yorkshire, and was a Grinder by trade when he enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 34th Foot, on 18 April 1805, having previous service in the York Fencibles from April 1800 to June 1802. He was promoted to Corporal in September 1807 and to Sergeant in June 1809, reverting to Private in November 1811, before being reappointed Corporal in May 1813. He was discharged at St Pierre, France, on 24 January 1814, in consequence of a ‘Gun Shot Wound in his left arm on the 21st June 1813 at Vittoria in action with the enemy’. Sold with copied discharge papers.