Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (Samuel Ward, 11th Light Dragoons.) minor marks and edge bruises, otherwise dark toned, good very fine £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Ron Wright.

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Provenance: Spink, April 2011; Waterloo medal sold at Sotheby in February 1886, and at Glendining’s in July 2001; Army of India does not appear to have been on the market.

Samuel Ward was born in the Parish of Edgerton, Kent, and attested for the 11th Light Dragoons at Dorchester, Dorset, on 11 January 1812, aged 21, a labourer by trade. He ‘served Three Years 7 Eight Months in France: in the Peninsula at the Battle of Salamanca, Burgos, Waterloo and at the Siege of Bhurtpore - Nineteen Years in the East Indies.’ He was discharged 31 July 1838, due to ‘Length of Service in the East Indies.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.