The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated, impressed naming (Robert Gilbert 96th Regiment Foot. 1844.) with replacement steel clip and large ring suspension, traces of brooch mounting to reverse, otherwise good very fine £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Dix Noonan Webb, May 2018.

Robert Gilbert was born in Frant, Sussex, in November 1803 and joined the newly formed 96th Regiment of Foot at Maidstone, Kent, on 6 February 1824. He served with the 96th Foot in Canada and in the West Indies, not returning to the U.K. until 1835. He subsequently served ‘at home’, in Scotland and Ireland, until being posted ‘on recruiting duty’ to Norwich until 1845, being awarded his only medal, the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1884. He was declared unfit for further service and was discharged from the army on 11 March 1845. He died in 1887 at Tonbridge, Kent.

Sold with copied service papers and research.