Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees,...

Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Geo. Saunderson, 32nd Foot) attempted erasure of name but still legible, neat repair to carriage between first two clasps, very fine £1,600-£2,000 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1940; Nimrod Dix, June 1986. George Saunderson (Sanderson on discharge papers) was born in the Parish of Berwick, Northumberland, and enlisted into the 32nd Foot on 12 August 1802, aged 19, a weaver by trade. He served a total of 16 years 122 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged at Fort George, Guernsey, in consequence of ‘gunshot wound thro right ankle stiff joint received in action on the 18th Day of June 1815 at Waterloo is rendered unfit for further service. He was recommended to the Board by Lieutenant-Colonel John Hicks, Commanding 32nd Regiment, who stated, ‘this man served at the capitulation of Copenhagen, the retreat to Corunna, Walcheren Expedition, Peninsula War under the Duke of Wellington, in the Battles of the 16th, 17th & 18th June 1815, I now recommend him to the favourable consideration of the Board.’ He was duly granted an Out-pension on 27 January 1817. Sold with copied discharge papers.