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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 38

A Fine M.G.S. and Waterloo Pair to Private S. Marsh, 4th Foot, Wounded in the Right Thigh in the Peninsula at Nive, 10.12.1813, and in the Left Thigh in North America at New Orleans, 8.1.1815
Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Salamanca (Saml. Marsh, 4th. Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Marsh, 1st Batt. 4th Reg. Foot.), with contemporary silver clip and straight bar suspender, contact marks to latter, the Waterloo nearly very fine, the MGS good very fine (2)

Private Samuel Marsh, born Botesdale, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk c. 1784; served with the Chatham Division, Royal Marines, January 1803 to July 1805; enlisted in the 4th (King´s Own) Foot, March 1806; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula, and present at the Battles of Salamanca, Valencia, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, and Nive, 10.12.1813, where he suffered a gun shot wound to the right thigh; sailed with the Regiment to North America, and present at the Battle of Bladensburg, 24.8.1814; the subsequent capture and burning of the public buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Capitol and the White House- ´the greatest disgrace every dealt to American arms´; and the Battles of Baltimore, and New Orleans, 8.1.1815, where he suffered two gun shot wounds to the left thigh, one in the right ankle, and a contusion in the loins- total British casualties were 291 killed, 1,262 wounded, and 484 missing; finally served during the Waterloo Campaign, as part of Captain Erskine´s No.4 Company, 16-18.6.1815, when the Regiment suffered 12 men killed and 8 officers and 113 men wounded; discharged, September 1818, after 16 years and 218 days with the Colours, and died in Botesdale, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, June 1859.

Provenance: J.B. Hayward, 1975
Spink, December 1997.

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