Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (Wm. Condon, 58th Foot) minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1,200-£1,600

Whalley Collection 1875; Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001. Also awarded a regimental medal (Ref Balmer R406) which was in the Gaskell Collection sold at Glendining’s in 1919.

William Condon was born in the Parish of Tiddiman, near Limerick, Ireland, and served in the 1st Battalion, 50th Regiment from 20 March 1780 to 20 July 1803; and in the 1st Battalion, 58th Regiment from 11 April 1804 to 24 April 1811, when he was discharged in Sicily, being ‘old and infirm’. His discharge papers also note: ‘N.B. The above man was wounded in Corsica in the head when storming a battery under the command of Genl. Sir Chas. Stuart in 1795, the mark still remains.’ He was admitted to a Chelsea out-pension on 13 August 1811, was resident at Limerick and died on 26 February 1849.

Sold with copied discharge papers and other research saved to CD.