Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (G. Bishop, Drummer, 40th Foot.) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1,400-£1,800

Provenance: Whitehouse Collection 1869; Cheylesmore Collection 1930.

George Bishop was born in the Parish of Bagborough, near Taunton, Somerset, and enlisted into the 40th Foot at Wellington, Somerset, on 7 May 1805, aged 13, for unlimited service. He was discharged to Kilmainham Pension on 12 June 1822, in consequence of ‘diseased testicle and severely wounded in the head at Salamanca.’ His conduct was described as ‘very good’ and that he ‘served in the Peninsula, North America and at Waterloo’, where he was present in Captain Barnett’s Company. He later resided at Liverpool and died on 15 January 1855.

Sod with copied discharge papers and pension register.