Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, St. Sebastian (Alexr. Weller, 9th Foot) slight edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,800-£2,200

Mullen Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2006.

Alexander Weller was born in the Parish of Cranbrook, Kent. A Bricklayer by occupation, he enlisted into the 9th Foot on 25 August 1807. His records show that he was ‘wounded in the neck at Vimiera’ and received ‘a gunshot wound to the left thigh at St. Sebastian 31st Augt. 1813’. As a consequence of his second wounding, he was rendered unfit for further service and was ordered to the Depot on the Isle of Wight for a final determination of his case and was discharged on 24 April 1814. He was admitted to Out-pension at Chelsea Hospital on 29 November 1814, at a rate of 6d per diem until 10 July 1815, when he enlisted into the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion until that battalion was disbanded at Frankfort Barracks, Plymouth, on 24 May 1816.

Sold with copied discharge papers, but these do not mention his first wound at Vimiera, presumably confirmed by Mullen in research no longer present.