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Pair: Corporal John Slater, 52nd Foot, who was one of the small detachment present at the...
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Pair: Corporal John Slater, 52nd Foot, who was one of the small detachment present at the battle of Talavera, was wounded in the head at Nivelle, and confirmed as a ‘Waterloo man’ and Chelsea Pensioner
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Slater, Corpl. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815, (Corporal Iohn Slater, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Light Infantry) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with wide silver hinged bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Provenance: Hyde Gregg Collection 1877; Whitaker Collection 1890; Glendining’s, February 1980; Dix Noonan Webb, February 2015.
Only 2 officers and 24 men of the 52nd received the clasp for Talavera, where they served in the 1st Battalion Detachments. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot, one other with this combination of clasps.
John Slater was born in the Parish of Ilkestone, Derby, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Battle, Sussex, on 6 May 1804, for unlimited service, aged twenty. A Stocking Weaver by trade, he served with the 52nd in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was wounded by a musket ball in the head at Sare, a fortified village on the Nivelle, on 10 November 1813, and was discharged on reduction of the establishment of the regiment, at Uxbridge, on 6 December 1818, as a Corporal, which rank he had held for nearly 5 years.
Slater was subsequently an out-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, admitted on a pension of 7d. per day from 25 February 1819, intending to reside at Nottingham, increased 9d. per day from 27 April 1840. In common with the other Chelsea pensioners he would have been required to wear his medal entitlement; given that the naming on the Waterloo medal is contemporarily re-engraved it is presumably this medal that the recipient wore, many men having since lost or sold their medals in the intervening years.
According to Dalton’s Waterloo Roll Call (A Few Waterloo Heroes - p 273) he ‘afterwards exchanged into the 69th. In 1848 Slater claimed his right to the silver war medal with 14 clasps - one clasp more than Wellington obtained - but only got a medal with 12 clasps. He died at Nottingham in 1860.’
Sold with copied discharge and Chelsea Hospital examination papers.
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Slater, Corpl. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815, (Corporal Iohn Slater, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Light Infantry) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with wide silver hinged bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hyde Gregg Collection 1877; Whitaker Collection 1890; Glendining’s, February 1980; Dix Noonan Webb, February 2015.
Only 2 officers and 24 men of the 52nd received the clasp for Talavera, where they served in the 1st Battalion Detachments. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot, one other with this combination of clasps.
John Slater was born in the Parish of Ilkestone, Derby, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Battle, Sussex, on 6 May 1804, for unlimited service, aged twenty. A Stocking Weaver by trade, he served with the 52nd in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was wounded by a musket ball in the head at Sare, a fortified village on the Nivelle, on 10 November 1813, and was discharged on reduction of the establishment of the regiment, at Uxbridge, on 6 December 1818, as a Corporal, which rank he had held for nearly 5 years.
Slater was subsequently an out-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, admitted on a pension of 7d. per day from 25 February 1819, intending to reside at Nottingham, increased 9d. per day from 27 April 1840. In common with the other Chelsea pensioners he would have been required to wear his medal entitlement; given that the naming on the Waterloo medal is contemporarily re-engraved it is presumably this medal that the recipient wore, many men having since lost or sold their medals in the intervening years.
According to Dalton’s Waterloo Roll Call (A Few Waterloo Heroes - p 273) he ‘afterwards exchanged into the 69th. In 1848 Slater claimed his right to the silver war medal with 14 clasps - one clasp more than Wellington obtained - but only got a medal with 12 clasps. He died at Nottingham in 1860.’
Sold with copied discharge and Chelsea Hospital examination papers.
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Pair: Corporal John Slater, 52nd Foot, who was one of the small detachment present at the battle of Talavera, was wounded in the head at Nivelle, and confirmed as a ‘Waterloo man’ and Chelsea Pensioner
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Slater, Corpl. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815, (Corporal Iohn Slater, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Light Infantry) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with wide silver hinged bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hyde Gregg Collection 1877; Whitaker Collection 1890; Glendining’s, February 1980; Dix Noonan Webb, February 2015.
Only 2 officers and 24 men of the 52nd received the clasp for Talavera, where they served in the 1st Battalion Detachments. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot, one other with this combination of clasps.
John Slater was born in the Parish of Ilkestone, Derby, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Battle, Sussex, on 6 May 1804, for unlimited service, aged twenty. A Stocking Weaver by trade, he served with the 52nd in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was wounded by a musket ball in the head at Sare, a fortified village on the Nivelle, on 10 November 1813, and was discharged on reduction of the establishment of the regiment, at Uxbridge, on 6 December 1818, as a Corporal, which rank he had held for nearly 5 years.
Slater was subsequently an out-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, admitted on a pension of 7d. per day from 25 February 1819, intending to reside at Nottingham, increased 9d. per day from 27 April 1840. In common with the other Chelsea pensioners he would have been required to wear his medal entitlement; given that the naming on the Waterloo medal is contemporarily re-engraved it is presumably this medal that the recipient wore, many men having since lost or sold their medals in the intervening years.
According to Dalton’s Waterloo Roll Call (A Few Waterloo Heroes - p 273) he ‘afterwards exchanged into the 69th. In 1848 Slater claimed his right to the silver war medal with 14 clasps - one clasp more than Wellington obtained - but only got a medal with 12 clasps. He died at Nottingham in 1860.’
Sold with copied discharge and Chelsea Hospital examination papers.
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Slater, Corpl. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815, (Corporal Iohn Slater, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Light Infantry) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with wide silver hinged bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Hyde Gregg Collection 1877; Whitaker Collection 1890; Glendining’s, February 1980; Dix Noonan Webb, February 2015.
Only 2 officers and 24 men of the 52nd received the clasp for Talavera, where they served in the 1st Battalion Detachments. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot, one other with this combination of clasps.
John Slater was born in the Parish of Ilkestone, Derby, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Battle, Sussex, on 6 May 1804, for unlimited service, aged twenty. A Stocking Weaver by trade, he served with the 52nd in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was wounded by a musket ball in the head at Sare, a fortified village on the Nivelle, on 10 November 1813, and was discharged on reduction of the establishment of the regiment, at Uxbridge, on 6 December 1818, as a Corporal, which rank he had held for nearly 5 years.
Slater was subsequently an out-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, admitted on a pension of 7d. per day from 25 February 1819, intending to reside at Nottingham, increased 9d. per day from 27 April 1840. In common with the other Chelsea pensioners he would have been required to wear his medal entitlement; given that the naming on the Waterloo medal is contemporarily re-engraved it is presumably this medal that the recipient wore, many men having since lost or sold their medals in the intervening years.
According to Dalton’s Waterloo Roll Call (A Few Waterloo Heroes - p 273) he ‘afterwards exchanged into the 69th. In 1848 Slater claimed his right to the silver war medal with 14 clasps - one clasp more than Wellington obtained - but only got a medal with 12 clasps. He died at Nottingham in 1860.’
Sold with copied discharge and Chelsea Hospital examination papers.
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