3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A Military General Service Medal, with two clasps VITTORIA and PYRANEES, awarded to ROBT. ROSS, 92ND FOOT, with photocopies of Statement of Service and Discharge sheet.
He sustained a gunshot wound to the right leg during the forcing of the Heights of Maya in the Pyranees on 25 July 1813. This injury led to him being discharged on 23 October 1815, as unfit for service.
Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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