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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 17

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (Edwd. Owens, 81st Foot.), suspension claw re-affixed, edge bruising, traces of lacquer, good fine

Provenance:
Glendining, October 1950.
Hayward, June 1975.

Edward Owens served with the 2nd Battalion, 81st Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Corunna on 16 January 1809. Part of Lieutenant-General Baird's Division, the regiment held the right flank of the British forces until the bulk of Sir John Moore's army had been evacuated.

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£450