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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 167

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£4,200

A fine Peninsula and Waterloo pair awarded to Private David Milne, 92nd Highlanders, who was wounded in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (David Melne, 92nd Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (David Milne, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders.) fitted with steel clip and bar suspension, the second with light edge bruising and contact marks, very fine, the first good very fine (2) £4000-5000

David Milne/Melne, a Labourer from Fife, enlisted into the 92nd Highlanders on 1 October 1806, and was discharged on 24 December 1818. He is recorded in the regimental rolls as having been wounded at Waterloo, and in the muster rolls for December 1813 to May 1814 as ‘Cambo Wounded’, and afterwards ‘Sick Pafrajes - To England’. He took his pension at Dundee and died on 25 June 1869. Sold with copied muster rolls and other research.