Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (William Lucas, 85th Foot) slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £700-800

William Lucas was born in Barrow, near Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland. By occupation a Tobacconist, he enlisted into the 85th Regiment on 2 April 1813, aged 24 years. He served in Captain Henry Fairfax’s Company of the 85th in the Peninsular and then served in America. He was discharged on 4 August 1815 as being unfit for further service as a consequence of ‘a bad ulcer of the leg contracted at New Orleans in America in December 1814’. Sold with copied discharge papers.