Daniel Wilton, 40th Foot, who also served in South and North America, and was wounded in the foot at Badajoz and in the hand at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (Daniel Wilton, 40th Foot) contact marks, otherwise generally very fine
£2500-3000

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

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Provenance: Glendining, July 1904; Dalrymple-White Collection 1946; Elson Collection 1963; Dix Noonan Webb, July 1998.

Daniel Wilton was born in the Parish of Castle Carey, Somerset, and enlisted into the 40th Foot, at Wells, Somerset, on 23 February 1805, aged 18, for unlimited service. He served with the regiment in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, and was discharged on 10 August 1821, in consequence of a reduction in the Establishment of the Regiment, his ‘constitution much debilitated by long and severe service, slightly wounded in the foot at Badajoz and in the fore finger of the right hand at Waterloo.’ He served in ‘So. America, the Peninsula, North America and at Waterloo’, and was admitted to an out-pension at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on 30 August 1821.

Sold with copied discharge papers.