Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (Wm. Shepherd, 29th Foot) nearly extremely fine £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Worcestershire Regiment formed by Group Captain J. E. Barker.

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Provenance: Debenham’s, August 1899; Sotheby, June 1904; Glendining’s, February 1939; Elson Collection, Glendining’s, February 1963.

Maximum clasp entitlement to the 29th Foot, being awarded to 2 officers and 25 other ranks.

William Shepherd was discharged on 19 March 1816, having served a little over 9 years. He was ‘examined’ at Chelsea Hospital on 14 October 1857, aged 60, and admitted to a late pension of 6d per day, having been wounded in the leg at Talavera (WO 116/59). The regiment was so reduced in numbers after the battle of Albuhera that it returned to England in October 1811 to recruit and saw no further service in the Peninsula.