Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (J. Ferriday, Corporal, 7th Light Dragoons) severe edge bruising and scratching over initial part of naming, therefore good fine £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R.W. Gould, M.B.E..

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John Ferriday was born in the Parish of Warnbridge, Shropshire, and enlisted for the 7th Hussars on 18 September 1804, aged nineteen. He was discharged at Romford Barracks on 8 August 1814, in consequence of ‘ulcerated legs from the effect of the frost while in Spain in the year 1808 and being of a scrophulous habit of body’. Sold with copied discharge papers.