George Henshaw, 45th Foot, who was wounded in the thigh at Busaco and in the back at Badajoz

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (George Henshaw, 45th Foot.) old repair to claw and top set of rivets, suspension bent and first carriage a little distorted, bad edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £2000-2500

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

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Provenance: Glendining, September 1930.

George Henshaw was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Nottingham, and enlisted into the 45th Foot on 30 January 1805, aged 19, a Stocking Maker by trade. He transferred to the 1st Royal Regiment of Veterans on 3 October 1815, and was discharged at Frankfort Barracks, Plymouth, on 21 June 1816, in consequence of disbandment and ‘gun shot wound of left thigh at Busaco and of back at Badajoz’. Sold with copied discharge papers.