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Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (Peter Garnett, 43rd Foot.) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £3,000-£4,000

Peter Garnett was born in the Parish of Runcol, Cheshire, and enlisted into the 43rd Foot at Belfast, County Antrim, on 18 June 1802, aged twenty two for unlimited service, a tailor by trade. He was discharged on 26 August 1822, after 23 years 179 days service, in consequence of being ’worn out from long and arduous services. Slightly wounded in the neck at Badajos on the 6th April 1812.’ His general conduct as a soldier has been ‘Very Good. Served with the Regiment at Copenhagen in 1807. In General Moore’s retreat in 1809 and in every Siege, Storm and Action in which the Regiment was engaged in the Peninsula from the battle of Coa, 24 July 1810, to the end of the war in the South of France (except the battle of Nive when he was sick). Served at New Orleans America, was present at the capture of Paris. And is strongly recommended for Pension.’ He was duly admitted to an out-pension at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on 25 September 1822.

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