Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna (Francis Kay, 6th Foot) edge bruises at 6 o’clock and evidence of other bruises having been professionally removed, otherwise nearly very fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Seabrook.

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Francis Kay was born at Bolton, Lancashire, and attested for the 6th Foot at Chelmsford on 25 April 1805. He served in the Peninsula in 1808-09, in Captain Curry’s company, and was discharged at Bombay in December 1827, being finally discharged at Horse Guards on 24 June 1829, suffering near blindness from Opthalmia.