A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Sergeant James Worswick, 1st Foot Guards, who was wounded in the back at Bayonne, and later fought at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Barrosa, St. Sebastian (J. Worswick, Serjt. 1st Foot Gds.) edge bruising, otherwise nearly 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: Christies 1902; Sir Godfrey Dalrymple White Collection 1946; Baldwin 1954; Spink, April 2000.

James Warswick was born at Pherza?, Lancashire, and served 7 years 11 months in the Grenadier Guards, being discharged in March 1817. He was present at Waterloo in Henry D’Oyly’s Company. At an ‘Examination of Invalid Soldiers’ held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 9 August 1864, he was granted a ‘Special Pension on account of Wounds’ of 9d per diem, in his case a ‘contusion of the back at Bayonne’. He was then aged 75 years. Sold with copied ‘Examination’ papers.