Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Toulouse (D. Barry, Gunner, Royal Arty.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £1100-1300

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 1999.

David Barry was born in the parish of Kerrymuir, Forfarshire, in 1779 and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Paisley, Lanark, in April 1799. He served during the Peninsula campaigns in Trelawney’s and Powers’ Companies, and was discharged in October 1818, on reduction of the forces.