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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 158

Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (George Taylor, 29th. Foot), pawn broker´s mark to edge, nearly extremely fine

Private George Taylor, born Blackburn c.1785; enlisted in the 29th Foot, April 1803; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from 1808, and present at the Battle of Roleia, 17.8.1808, where the Regiment suffered the highest number of casualties in the British force, 151, including their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, who was killed; the 29th suffered even higher casualties at Talavera, 27-28.7.1809, with the loss of 183 Officers and men; present and wounded at Albuhera, 16.5.1811- the bloodiest battle of the whole War- in which the 29th suffered casualties of 324 Officers and men, which had the effect of so reducing the Regiment´s numbers that they were obliged to return to Britain to recruit; discharged, August 1812 on account of an ´amputated leg from a wound at Albuhera´ (Service papers refer), after 9 years and 85 days with the Colours; died January 1860.

Provenance: Greg Collection 1887
Glendining, May 1992
Darwent Collection, April 2004.

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£2,700