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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 224

Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Serjeant Jas. Johnson, 10th. Hussars.), rank and unit neatly renamed in serif capitals, lacquered, nearly extremely fine

Troop Sergeant Major James Johnson, born Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 1778; enlisted in the 10th Royal Hussars, March 1800, having previously served for 5 years and 168 days in the Surrey F.B.; promoted Corporal, April 1800; Sergeant, April 1806; promoted Troop Sergeant Major, June 1815; discharged, February 1816, as a result of 'Impaired vision, with opacities of the eyes, from having laboured under ophthalmia in the month of June 1815 at the Depot at Sussex; and by being rheumatic caused by exposure to wet and cold in Spain and France in 1813 and 1814' (Service Papers refer), after 21 years and 74 days with the Colours.

Whilst Mullen's M.G.S. Roll lists Sergeant James Johnson, 10th Hussars, with this clasp entitlement, it also notes 'Not on Roll.'

Provenance: Glendining, 1955.

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