Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Busaco, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, clasp carriage altered and clasps tightly spaced as for a 7+ clasp medal (John Murray 38th. Foot.) contemporarily and neatly re-engraved naming, abrasions to facings of second and third clasps, good very fine £200-£240

A man of the name John Murray, 38th Foot, does appear on the latest published transcript of the Military General Service Medal roll with these five clasps. He was wounded in the face by a musket shot at St. Sebastian, and discharged on 22 June 1814, subsequently being admitted as an in-patient at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

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