Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Egypt, Martinique (Samuel Griffin, 8th Foot) very fine £1200-1400

13 medals to the regiment with these two clasps.

Samuel Griffin was born at Kilconwat, Co. Wicklow, and enlisted into the 8th Foot on 9 August 1796. He was discharged at Chippewa, Upper Canada, on 24 May 1814, in consequence of ‘being wounded at Fort George 27 May 1813.’

On 27 May 1813, American forces under Lieutenant-Colonel Winfield Scott, attacked and captured the British garrison at Fort George on the south western shores of Lake Ontario. Only 600 strong, the British were hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by the attacking force of 6000 Americans. Casualties in the 8th Foot amounted to some 200 officers and men killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Sold with copy discharge papers.