A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals

Pair: David Milne, 92nd Highlanders, who was wounded in France and at Waterloo

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (David Melne, 92nd Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (David Milne, 1st Batt. 92nd Highlanders.) fitted with steel clip and bar suspension, the second with light edge bruises and contact marks, otherwise very fine, the first good very fine (2) £3500-4000

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

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Provenance: Liverpool Medals 1986.

David Milne/Melne, a Labourer from Fife, enlisted into the 92nd Highlanders on 1 October 1806, and was discharged on 24 December 1818. He is recorded in the regimental rolls as having been wounded at Waterloo, and in the muster rolls for December 1813 to May 1814 as ‘Cambo Wounded’, and afterwards ‘Sick Pafrajes - To England’. He took his pension at Dundee and died on 25 June 1869.

Sold with copied muster rolls and other research.