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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 156

Military General Service 1793-1814, four clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nive (J. Humphries, Corpl. 4th. Foot.), edge bruising, nearly very fine

Corporal John Humphries, born Derryvollan, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, 1786; enlisted in the 4th (King´s Own) Foot, February 1808; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula and in America, and received a grape shot wound to the left side at New Orleans, 8.1.1815; re-enlisted in the 8th Royal Veteran Battalion, November 1819; discharged January 1821, after 11 years and 4 days with the Colours.

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