A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Sergeant Irvine Beattie, 59th Foot, a veteran of the Carib Wars of 1795-96

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Vittoria (Irvine Beattie, Serjeant, 59th Foot.) very fine £1200-1400

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

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Provenance: Glendining, May 1963.

Irvine Beattie was born in the Parish of Drumawhey, County Fermanagh, and enlisted into the 59th Foot on 1 January 1795, aged 25. He served 6 years 30 days in the West Indies, during which period the regiment took part in the Carib Wars of 1795-96. He probably took part in the Walcheren Expedition after the Corunna campaign of 1809 before returning to the Peninsula to take part in the battle of Vittoria. He served for 10 years 188 days in the rank of Sergeant and was discharged at Deal on 7 July 1815, in consequence of visceral disease. He died at Sandigate, Folkestone, Kent, on 13 March 1855.

Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.