Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Thomas Bodsby, 5th Foot.) Corunna clasp is a copy, suspension and carriage reconstituted, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £600-£800

Thomas Bodsby was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and enlisted into the 5th Foot at Ashford, Sussex, on 24 July 1799, aged 20, a cordwainer by trade. He served 18 years 110 days and was discharged on 10 November 1817, ‘being aged and worn out’. He died at Hatfield where he was buried on 8 February 1858, aged 79. Sold with copied discharge papers and full details of professional reconstitution work.