William Abbott, 27th Foot, who was wounded at the battle of Maida and twice in the Peninsula

Waterloo 1815 (William Abbott, 1st Batt. 27th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension and ribbon buckle, nearly very fine £2500-3000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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William Abbott was born in the Parish of Neeshal, near Newtown Barry, County Wexford, and enlisted there for the 27th Foot on 1 May 1801, aged 24, for unlimited service. He served with the 1st Battalion in Italy, the Peninsula, and at Waterloo before transferring to the 3rd Battalion in the last quarter of 1815, and then to the 2nd Battalion on 8 February 1817. He was discharged on 24 May 1817, ‘being worn out from length of service’ and ‘wounded in the right thigh at Maida, in the leg at Castalla and the left hand at Ordal’.

The actions in 1813 at Castalla and Ordal, in April and September respectively, whilst not of great importance in the overall war, were, nonetheless, fiercely contested battles in which the 27th suffered many casualties, no less than 360 killed and wounded at the latter which culminated in a French victory.

Sold with copied discharge papers.