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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 510

Army Long Service & G.C., W.IV.R. (W. Hoskin, Serjeant 4th Regiment Foot. 1836.), nearly very fine, with original steel clip and split ring suspension

75 Sergeant William Hoskin, born St. Teath, near Camelford, Cornwall, 1790; enlisted in the 4th (King´s Own) Foot, December 1813; promoted Corporal, December 1813, after 11 days´ service; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula and in America, and received a gunshot wound to the thigh at New Orleans, 8.1.1815, in which action British casualties were 291 killed, 1,262 wounded, and 484 missing; served in Captain Craig´s No.5 Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; promoted Sergeant, 19.6.1815, the day after the Battle of Waterloo; discharged September 1834, after 22 years and 283 days with the Colours.

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