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MGS Guadaloupe 1810 25th Regt KOSB

£1,495.00

Military General Service Medal, bar Guadaloupe, Private Thomas Western, 25th (King’s Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot, later known as the KOSB, Invasion of Guadaloupe 1810.

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Military General Service Medal, bar Guadaloupe, Private Thomas Western, 25th (King’s Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot, later known as the KOSB, Invasion of Guadaloupe 1810. 

 

Officially impressed: “T. Western, 25th Foot”

 

Confirmed on the medal roll.

 

Toned, some edge bruising through wear.

 

The medal has a long standing provenance:

 

First noted as sold in Sotheby November 1894, then in the Needes Collection 1939.

Then resurfaced in DNW during 2017 hammering for £1100=£1420.

 

By the time of the institution of the medal it had been 37 years since the events in Guadaloupe, by then only 616 survivors claimed the Guadaloupe clasp from the entire force present, 104 of them from the 25th Foot.

This was one of 55 single clasp medals claimed by the regiment to the 25th Foot.

 

The medal roll records that he served in the 1st Battalion under “Captain Terry”.

 

Captain, later Colonel Robert Terry was a long serving Officer of the 25th Foot, having joined back in 1799 and was present as a Captain in the Capture of Guadaloupe and St Martins during 1810.