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Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Toulouse (John Langley, 43rd Foot.) good very fine £3,000-£4,000

Spink, April 2014.

John Langley was born in the Parish of Killishandra, County Cavan, and enlisted into the 43rd Foot at Dunbar on 1 June 1804, a cooper by trade. He ‘served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, in General Moore’s retreat, and in every Siege, Storm and Action in which the Regiment was engaged in the Peninsula, from the Battle of the Coa, 24th July 1810, to the end of the War in the South of France, served in the Expedition to New Orleans, America, was present at the capitulation of Paris, and is strongly recommended for Pension.’ He was discharged at Gibraltar on 10 April 1825 in consequence of ‘his constitution being worn by twenty one years most arduous service with his Regt. in various parts of the world - (wounded in left shoulder at Sabugal, 3rd April 1811).’ He was duly admitted to an out-pension of 11d per diem on 2 June 1825, increased to 1/6 from 19 May 1874.

Sold with copied discharge papers, the originals showing partial losses.