Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

William Cotton, 95th Foot, Rifles, who was wounded in the left leg at Badajoz

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Barrosa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz (W. Cotton, 95th Foot, Rifles.) light edge bruising, otherwise good 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: Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Spink, December 1997 and July 2000.

One of only two M.G.S. medals issued with this three clasp combination, both to the 95th Foot.

William Cotton was a native of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, who attested for the 95th Foot, from the North Yorkshire Militia, on 31 March 1809, for seven years, receiving a bounty of £5-5s. He was invalided out in August 1812 and admitted to an out-pension of 9d per diem at Chelsea Hospital, December 1812, in consequence of ‘wounded left leg at Badajoz’. He died on 2 October 1856.

Sold with research.