Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (F. Scott, M.D., Surgn., 95th Foot) original riband, edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200

Francis Scott, who was born in February 1784, was originally appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 93rd Foot in May 1802, direct from a similar appointment in the Tyrone Militia. Subsequently present at the Capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and in the Walcheren expedition in 1809, he transferred to the 95th Foot as a Surgeon in January 1810, and witnessed further action in the Pyrenees and at Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse - so, too, at Waterloo, as Surgeon to the 2nd Battalion. Scott was placed on half-pay in September 1836 and died in April 1849; interestingly, as per the relevant entry in Balmer’s Regimental & Volunteer Medals (see R562), he appears to have been awarded a 95th Regiment silver cross bearing the battle honour Vittoria.