Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Nivelle (Thomas Colvin, 57th Foot) with silver buckle on ribbon, edge bruising, some scratches to reverse, very fine £1400-1800

Ex Needes 1915; Baldwin 1950; Dixon September 1999.

Thomas Colvin came from Tonbridge, Kent, and served at Albuhera, 16 May 1811, where the regiment gained the sobriquet, ‘Die-Hards’. He was wounded in the left arm at Mayo in November 1813.