Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Barrosa (Thos. Jones, 47th Foot.) replacement clasp retaining rod, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £1,000-£1,400

Mackenzie Collection 1873; Spink N.C., October 1976.

Only 8 single-clasp medals for Barrosa to the regiment.

Two companies of the 2nd Battalion, 47th Foot with four companies of 3/95th formed Barnard’s Flank Battalion at Barrosa.

Private Thomas Jones is recorded as having attended the Wellington Memorial Service at Preston on 18 November 1852, and the dinner held at the Shelley’s Arms, on Fishergate, on the same occasion.