Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Talavera (Thomas Andrews, 40th Foot.) nearly extremely fine £1,000-£1,200

Provenance: Fowler Collection, Glendining’s, September 1919.

Only five single clasps for Talavera to the 40th.

Thomas Andrews was born at Castle Carey, Somerset, and enlisted into the 40th Foot at Winchester on 24 August 1807, for unlimited service, aged 24, a labourer by trade. He was discharged on reduction on 24 March 1819, and from being ‘asthmatic brought on by severe service.’ His conduct was described as ‘very good and steady,’ and that he ‘served in the Peninsula, North America and at Waterloo.’ He was present at Waterloo in Captain Streton’s Company. He was admitted to pension of 6d per diem on the following day and died at Bath on 2 December 1847.

Sold with copied discharge papers and pension register.