Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Badajoz (J. Barber, Serjeant, 40th Foot) good very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Sold at Glendining in 1912, and by Baldwin in 1942 and 1955; Darwent Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004. Only five single clasp medals for Badajoz to the regiment.

John Barber was born in the Parish of Walcot, near Bath, circa 1776, and enlisted into the 40th Foot at Fareham, Hampshire, on 26 August 1799, aged 23 years. He was discharged at Glasgow on 7 November 1818, in consequence of a reduction in the establishment of the regiment, his discharge papers recording that his conduct has been ‘Very good and steady. He served in Holland, South America, Peninsula, North America and at Waterloo, and was wounded in the right arm at the assault and capture of Badajoz.’ He was present at Waterloo in Captain Bowen’s Company. John Barber, who never appears to have served as a Sergeant, was admitted to pension on 20 January 1819, and was then residing at Bath. Sold with copy discharge papers and muster details.