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Military General Service, 8 clasps with Badajoz Lieutenant 27th Foot . Also served in North America from 1814 in the 1st Brigade of veterans of the Peninsular War under Major General Robinson and present at Plattsburgh

15
Nov

Military General Service, 8 clasps, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse R. S. Ruddach, Lieut. 27th Foot Robert Steuart Ruddach was born in October 1795, educ. Eton and joined the 27th Foot as Ensign. 28 Nov. 1811. Lieutenant by purchase in January 1813 from Lieutenant Bakewell who had been wounded, for £150. He […]

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Military General service, clasps. Badajoz, Salamanca, 4th Foot. Wounded in the leg at the storming of Badajoz and again the thigh at New Orleans,

12
Sep

Military General service, 2 clasps. Badajoz, Salamanca, J. White, 4th Foot. Joshua White, of Caversham, Reading , Berks. Enl. 1809, disch. Jan. 1816 wounded thigh and leg at BNadajoz and in America Ne………………….(remainder indistinct) Died 1858. Tasked with the assault on the San Vincente bastion close by the river on the north-western wall by ladder […]

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Military General Service 8 clasps, Waterloo, 42nd Foot Regimental Medal, 3 times wounded by lancers at Quatres Bras and again at Toulouse. At Quatres Bras the Brunswick Hussars broke and mingled with the French Lancers fell back on the 42nd who were moving up in line. With great discipline the 42nd formed square, Lancers without and within. Despite losing three commanding officers in quick succession and almost half their strength the 42nd held firm

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Jun

M.G.S. 8 clasps,  Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive Orthes, Toulouse (R. Chisholm, 42nd Foot), Waterloo (Roderick Chisholm, 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry, 42nd Foot Regimental Record (R. Chisholm) with suspension bar engraved ‘Vittoria, & Pamplona’ and a further ribbon bar additionally engraved ‘Badajoz’ & ‘Rodrigo’ With  copy discharge papers, ‘Wounded by lancers in […]

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Military General Service clasp Java, 89th Foot

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Aug

Military General Service clasp Java, Dennis McCoy, 89th Foot The 1st Battalion embarked for the Hanover Expedition in December 1805 but lost its colours in a storm off Holland. After service in Germany the battalion returned to England in February 1806. The battalion sailed for South America in spring 1807 and took part in the […]

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Military General Service clasp Maida , Corporal, 78th

13
Jun

Military General Service clasp Maida , Alexr. Stewart, Corpl, 78th Foot With copy Statement of Service. Alexander Stewart from Dull, Blair Atholl, Perth, attested 1804 aged 16, served until 1827, being 21 years plus 2 years underage. His conduct is stated as ‘Remarkably Good’ discharged aged 39 ‘worn out’ A few minor edge bumps

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Royal Red Cross 1st Class Victoria, to the A.N.S. one of two awards for services during the Sudan Campaign of 1898 and being one of only a total of seven nurses present 1895-99. Originally forwarded for the Khedives Sudan, three including the recipient with clasp but later all considered not to have met the criteria. Together with the Order of St. John this awarded for services in the Boer War. One of 3 awards award for the Sudan operations, 1898, Mentioned in. Despatches for the Boer War, September 1901, gazetted for a second Royal Red Cross, October 1901. Due to regulations not allowing the Order of St John was awarded in it’s place 1902

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Feb

Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver and enamel breast badge, Q.S.A, no clasp (Superintendent), K.S.A., no clasp (Supt.) with a Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge R.R.C. L.G., 15/11/1898: ‘The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer the Decoration of the Royal […]

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E11R Military Medal group, Chestnut Troop, R.H.A. award for Aden 1966, for his gallantry during a night attack carried out by a force of at least 80 heavily armed dissidents on the Dhala Garrison, 28/29 March 1966. Regularly exposing himself to mortar and small-arms fire, he led his 2 gun section fearlessly during the 8 hour action. One of 11 awards for this theatre 1964-67

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Feb

Military Medal, (EIIR)., 2nd issue (Sgt.  R.A.); General Service 1918-62,  clasp, Cyprus (Sgt.  R.A.); Campaign Service Medal  clasp, South Arabia (Sgt.  RHA.) S.G. Harrison Mounted as originally worn, M.M. London Gazette 26 August 1966: ‘On the night of 28/29 March 1966 a force of about eighty dissident tribesmen, armed with mortars, rockets, machine-guns and rifles, […]

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