A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

James Cox, 57th Foot, one of the ‘Die Hard’s’ at Albuhera and afterwards wounded at Pampeluna

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria (James Cox, 57th Foot.) good very fine £1600-1800

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

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Provenance: Glendining, June 1904, July 1928, and May 1958; Spink, December 1997.

James Cox was born in the Parish of Brighton, Sussex, and enlisted into the 57th Foot in April 1804, aged 17, a Brick Maker by trade. He was discharged to out-pension on 2 February 1815, and joined the 1st Royal Regiment of Veterans on 11 July 1815, being discharged from that unit upon its disbandment on 24 May 1816, and in consequence of ‘wounded jaw at Pampeluna’. Sold with copied discharge papers.