Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (A. D. McLaren, Lieut. 91st. Foot) good very fine £1,400-£1,800

Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003.

Alexander Donald McLaren was first commissioned into the Berwickshire Militia, as an Ensign, on 23 June 1811, being promoted Lieutenant on 20 November 1811. He transferred to a regular commission as an Ensign in the 91st Regiment of Foot on 3 June 1812, and served during the latter stages of the Peninsula campaign, being promoted Lieutenant in that regiment on 31 November 1814. On reduction of the 91st Regiment of Foot in November 1816 he reverted back to the Berwickshire Militia as Adjutant.

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