A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Sergeant John Brown, 11th Light Dragoons

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (John Brown, Serjeant, 11th Light Dragoons.) light edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Sotheby, February 1912; Coutts Collection 1916; Needes Collection 1927; Spink, December 1990.

John Brown was born in the Parish of Buckland, near Farringdon, Berkshire, and enlisted at London on 2 July 1804, for unlimited service, a Draper by trade, aged 25. He served in the Peninsula in 1811-12, and in India from August 1818 to October 1822, being discharged from the regiment at Meerut on 1 October 1822. Returning to England, he landed at Gravesend on 3 May 1823, and received his final discharge on 3 June 1823, in consequence of ‘chronic rheumatism with general debility’. His total service amounted to 18 years 327 days, the final 5 years in the rank of Sergeant. His conduct was described as ‘zealous and attentive, he served in the Peninsula in 1811 & 12’, when the regiment formed part of Anson’s light cavalry brigade which was involved in the pursuit after the battle of Salamanca. Sold with copied discharge papers