Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Ciudad Rodrigo (Thomas Dimmock, 9th Light Dragoons.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £2000-2400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 9th and 12th Lancers.

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Ex Debenhams, May 1901; Needes Collection 1939.

One of only 4 M.G.S. to the 9th Light Dragoons, including two officers who served on the Staff in the Peninsula. Only 54 single clasp medals for Ciudad Rodrigo were issued.

Thomas Dimmock was born in the Parish of St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1791 and enlisted into the 24th Light Dragoons on 1 January 1809. He enlisted into the 9th Lancers at Dorchester on 11 October 1811 and served with that regiment until his final discharge on 11 March 1828, at the age of 37.

The pay and muster roll for the period covering Ciudad Rodrigo notes that his ‘Pay to be remitted to Captn. Call and paid by him to Thos. Dimmock.’ Captain George Isaac Call, 9th Lancers, was A.D.C. to Major-General McKinnon at Ciudad Rodrigo and received the M.G.S. with that single clasp. Dimmock was almost certainly present as his servant. Call had previously served with the 27th Light Dragoons in India and gained the Army of India medal with clasps for Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Laswaree and Capture of Deig, in addition to the medal for China 1842 - a unique group of medals. Sold with copied discharge papers and muster rolls.