Three: Private John Walsh, 13th Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry

Ghuznee 1839 (Pt. John Walsh XIII P.A.L.I.) fitted with replacement bar suspension; Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Mural Crown (Pt. John Walsh XIII P.A.L.I.) fitted with replacement bar suspension; Cabul 1842 (Pt. John Walsh XIII P.A.L.I.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, all three medals impressed in the correct regimental style, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (3) £1400-1600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Ex Hoffmann collection, sold Frankfurt-am-Main October 1900, and later in the collection of D. C. Gosling, U.S.A.

John Walsh was born at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and attested for the 13th Light Infantry from the Hibernian Military School at Dublin on 31 July 1827, a boy aged 13. He served abroad in the East Indies for a period of 12 years and at home for 8 years 10 months. He was discharged on 10 October 1853, his character rightfully being described as “bad”, he having been tried three times by a Regimental Court Martial and entered no less than 76 times in the Regimental Defaulters’ Book. The first of these offences occurred on 9 May 1835, ‘for having on his person a pair of trousers the property of Bugler Scully’. He was subsequently found to have been drunk on no fewer than 32 occasions, the remainder of his charges mostly relating to having been absent without leave. Sold with copy discharge papers.