A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

John Flowers, 28th Foot

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Flowers, 28th Foot.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £2000-2500

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

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Provenance: Sotheby 1881; Glendining, April 1944 and February 1963, Elson Collection; Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999.

Maximum clasp entitlement to the regiment.

John Flowers was born in the Parish of Walcott, near Bath, Somerset, and served as a Marine in the Portsmouth Division from May 1800 to August 1802, and with the Royal Army of Reserves from August 1803 to February 1804. He enlisted for the 28th Foot ‘for life’ at Fermoy, County Cork, on 25 June 1804, when he was aged twenty-six years. He served in the Peninsular and at the battle of Waterloo, and was discharged on 27 July 1819, on a reduction in the establishment of the regiment. Flowers was admitted to an in-pension on 1 July 1852, but reverted to an out-pension at his own request, conduct good, on 1 October 1852. He was still living in November 1855 when he was refused an increase in his pension.

Sold with copied discharge papers.