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orders, decorations, campaign medals and militaria - Spink

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November 22, 2012 - LoNdoN<br />

181 182<br />

181<br />

Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps,<br />

Salamanca, Pyrenees, Toulouse (P. Canavan, 11th.<br />

Foot.), minor edge bruising, good very fine<br />

£1,400-1,600<br />

Private Patrick Canavan, born Dozenart, Tyrone, Irel<strong>and</strong>,<br />

1790; enlisted in the 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of<br />

Foot, January 1808; served with the Regiment in the<br />

Peninsula, <strong>and</strong> present at the Battle of Salamanca, 22.7.1812,<br />

when casualties for the Regiment were 16 Officers <strong>and</strong> 325<br />

men out of a total force of 516, earning the Regiment the<br />

soubriquet ‘The Bloody Eleventh’; discharged, May 1816,<br />

on account of being ‘lame from a gunshot to left leg <strong>and</strong><br />

wound in breast from fall at Bayonne’ after 8 years <strong>and</strong> 133<br />

days with the Colours.<br />

123<br />

182<br />

Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps,<br />

Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Thomas Green, 10th.<br />

Hussars.), lacquered, edge bruising, good very fine<br />

£700-900<br />

PROVENANCE:<br />

Glendining, May 1937<br />

J.B. Hayward, January 1974

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