Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (John Cartwright, 59th Foot) light marks, otherwise good very fine £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Arnold Jackson.

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Ex Elson and Leyland Robinson Collections. Medal illustrated in Sudden Death - Sudden Glory, by David Ingham.

John Cartwright was born at Buxton, Derbyshire, and enlisted into the 59th Foot at Manchester in October 1806. He served throughout as a Private and was discharged on 3 November 1814, in consequence of having been wounded in the head by a shell-burst at St Sebastian. When he applied for a pension in February 1858, he was living at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, and described as being 73 years of age and by trade a clothier. He was granted a pension of 6d per day and was still drawing his pension at Manchester in 1876. Sold with research.