Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Military General Service Medal awarded to Private George McGorgan, 27th Foot, whose regiment served in the expedition to Lake Champlain; he was afterwards a pensioner residing at Adjala, near Toronto where he claimed his pension

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (George McGorgan, 27th Foot) neat repairs to carriage and rivets, otherwise good very fine £1,800-£2,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals Relating to the War of 1812.

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Glendining’s, December 1990 (when missing Salamanca clasp face); Collection of John Darwent, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004.

Only one company of the regiment present at Albuhera.

George McGorgan was born in 1790 at Tullysaren, near Armagh, Ireland, and enlisted into the 27th Foot at Armagh on 25 December 1806, aged 17 years. He served 22 years 269 days and was discharged on 22 July 1829, from Barbados, in consequence of a chronic ulcer on his left leg and an exhausted constitution. The regiment served in North America and was present in the expedition to Lake Champlain. He collected his pension in the Toronto District of Canada where he was residing in the town of Adjala where he was still living in 1850.

Sold with copied discharge and pension papers.