Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse (John Langley, 43rd Foot) very fine £1200-1400

John Langley was born in the Parish of Killishandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and enlisted for the 43rd Light Infantry at Dunbar in June 1804. He was discharged at Gibraltar in April 1825, ‘in consequence of his constitution being worn by tewnty one years most ard[uous service] with his Regt. in various parts of the world. (Wounded in left shoul[der......]gal 3d April 1811).’ He ‘served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, in General Moore’s retreat, and in every Siege, Storm and Action in which the Regiment was engaged in the Peninsula, from the Battle of the Coa, 24th July 1810, to the end of the War in the South if France, served in the Expedition to New Orleans, America, was present at the capitulation of Paris, and is strongly recommended for Pension.’ Sold with copy discharge papers, the originals of which show some loss in parts.