Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Busaco (David Archer, 95th Foot, Rifles.) toned, minor edge nicks, good very fine £1,200-£1,600

Provenance: Spink, May 1980.

Discharged 14 July 1812, in consequence of ‘his left eye having been destroyed by a wound which he received at Pombal on the 12th March 1811 from which the ball has not yet been extracted’. Sold with copied discharge papers.