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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 149

A Good ´American´ M.G.S. for Fort Detroit to Private T. Glass, 41st Foot, Who Was Taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Lake Erie, 10.9.1812, and Subsequently Escaped
Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Fort Detroit (T. Glass, 41st. Foot), nearly extremely fine

Private Thomas Glass, born c.1786; enlisted in the 41st Foot, July 1809; served with the 1st Battalion in Upper Canada, and present at the capture of Fort Detroit, 16.8.1812; taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Lake Erie, 10.9.1812, and subsequently escaped; discharged, August 1816; died January 1866.

Provenance: Glendining, July 1962
Spink, July 1994

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£8,000