Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Fuentes D’Onor (H. Jarrett, Arty. Driver) edge bruising and heavily polished, otherwise fine £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Henry Jarrett was born in the Parish of Ringmer, near Lewes, Sussex, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery Drivers as a Driver in “F” Troop on 26 April 1799, aged 24, a labourer by trade. He served 15 years 157 days and was discharged at Woolwich in consequence of a ‘Reduction’ on 24 September 1814. He was admitted as an In-pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 1 October 1861, and died ‘in the House’ on 11 May 1869.

Sold with copied discharge papers.