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Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (W. Armstrong, 43rd Foot.) clasps re-constituted on new carriages and suspension, edge bruise and polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1,200-£1,600

William Armstrong was born in the Parish of Colne Brookdale, near Bridgenorth, Shropshire, and enlisted into the 43rd Foot at Chichester, Hampshire, on 25 April 1805, aged twenty four, for unlimited service, an iron founder 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, was present at the capitulation of Paris, and was one of the storming party at Badajos, and is strongly recommended for Pension.’ He was discharged at Gibraltar on 5 April 1826, in consequence of ‘his constitution being worn out by long and severe services - he received a wound in the right cheek at Badajos and one in the left leg at Nivelle’ [possibly New Orleans] and was admitted to Pension at 1/- per diem on 10 June 1826.

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