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Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes (Robert Colquhoun, 94th Foot) toned, good very fine £2,000-£2,400

Glendining’s, March 1927 and February 1947.

Robert Colquhoun was born in the Parish of Camlachie, Glasgow, and enlisted into the 94th Foot on 17 April 1808, a volunteer from the Renfrew Militia. He went with the regiment to Portugal and Spain in January 1810, where he was promoted to Corporal in May 1811. According to the musters, Colquhoun seems to have been wounded at the storming of Badajoz and was moved back to the rear hospital in Spain and then further back to a hospital in Portugal, where he remained for nearly a year until April 1813. For some reason he missed the actions in the Pyrenees, possibly by because he was in prison, having been reduced to Private on 16 July 1813. He was again wounded at Orthes, being sent back to the hospital in the rear until April 1814, and afterwards returned to Ireland. He was finally discharged at Kilkenny on 20 April 1815, having served 7 years. He applied for a pension in April 1852 and 10 years later was granted one at 1/- per diem, commencing 23 February 1864 (WO 116/60 ‘wounded Ort’ and WO 23/61 refer). Robert Colquhoun died in Glasgow on 5 May 1870, aged 87.

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