A Collection of Napoleonic-Era Campaign Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Alexr. Yorkston, 94th Foot.) edge bruise and scratch through ‘Foot’, otherwise better than very fine £3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic-Era Campaign Medals.

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Gray Collection 1898; Phillips Collection 1925; Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927; Needes Collection 1940.

Four officers and 19 men received the M.G.S. medal with the maximum entitlement of 10 clasps.

Alexander Yorkston was born in the Parish of Dunbar, East Lothian, and attested for the 94th Foot (Scotch Brigade) at Musselburgh on 25 April 1805, for unlimited service, a volunteer from the Berwick Militia, aged 33 years. He had previous service in the Hopton Fencibles from 11 March 1793 to 13 April 1799. He was discharged at Dublin on 28 May 1817, and admitted to Kilmainham Hospital ‘worn out’.