Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Toulouse (J. Ross, 79th Foot) nearly very fine £1000-1200

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

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Ex Gaskell collection 1911, and Leyland Robinson collection 1952.

John Ross was born in the Parish of Kilmuir, near Miltown, Ross, and enlisted into the 71st Foot on 5 January 1799, and served in this regiment until 3 June 1805. He enlisted into the 79th Foot at Glasgow on 2 February 1806, aged 30 years. He was discharged on 24 June 1817, in consequence of asthma, his discharge papers recording that his conduct had been ‘very good’ and that ‘he served in the Peninsula and France in campaigns of 1808, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14, and was three times severely wounded, viz: at Busaco, Fuentes d’Honora, and Toulouse. He also served with the Regiment in Walcheren in the year 1809.’ Sold with copy discharge papers and much detailed research.