Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Chas. Tansey, 27th. Foot) clasp carriage altered with solid backplate affixed, light surface marks and minor edge bruising, good very fine £1,800-£2,200

Charles Tansey was born in Sligo and attested for the 27th Regiment of Foot in May 1807. He served with the Regiment in the Peninsula and in South America and received a severe wound before Badajoz (service papers refer). He died in West London on 17 October 1858.

Sold with copied medal roll extract which confirms that the recipient was not entitled to the Badajoz clasp, and other research.