Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (A. F. Paxton, Lieut. 11th Dgns.) edge bruising and light traces to rim at 6 o’clock of the medal previously having been held in a mount, otherwise good very fine £1,400-£1,800

Dix & Webb, March 1996.

Archibald Frederick Paxton was born in 1793, the son of Sir William Paxton, of Middleton Hall, co. Carmarthen, and was educated at Harrow. He was commissioned cornet in the 11th Dragoons on 26 June 1811, and was promoted to lieutenant on 19 December 1811. He served with his regiment in the Peninsula and was present at the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812; he is also recorded as being present at the skirmish at Morisco on 20-22 June 1812 and the affair at Castrejon on 18 July 1812. He retired on reserved half-pay on 23 July 1817, and was later a magistrate for Wiltshire, residing at Cholderton, near Salisbury. He died in London on 11 April 1875.

Sold with copied research.