Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (G. A. Morewood, M.D. Phyn. to the Forces.) in its named card box of issue together with Horse Guards enclosure letter, dated 18 Novr. 1849, dark toned, extremely fine £2,400-£2,800

Provenance: Glendining’s, September 1988.

This would appear to be the only M.G.S. medal issued in the rank of Physician to the Forces.

George Alexander Morewood was born in Ireland, and graduated doctor of medicine at Glasgow on 21 April 1806. He was admitted as a Licentiate of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1806, and joined the Army as a Physician on 7 September 1807. He served with General Beresford’s expedition to Madeira and occupation of that Island; the campaign in Spain and at Corunna under Sir John Moore; the Walcheren expedition; with the army of Sir John Stewart in Sicily; with Lord Wellington in the Peninsula, including the siege of Badajoz; and during the last year of the war in North America in 1813. Doctor Morewood was placed on retired Half-Pay on 25 December 1814, and died at Bath on 24 September 1859.