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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 222

Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Corunna (P. Mates, 1st. Foot Gds.), lacquered, extremely fine

Private Peter Mates, born Watling, Sussex, October 1787; enlisted in the 1st Foot Guards, October 1804; served with the regiment during the Peninsula Campaign, 1808-09, and in Lieutenant-Colonel Reeves' Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; discharged October 1825; died 1849, after 23 years and 22 days with the Colours.

Provenance: Glendining, May 1920.

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