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A rare 12-clasp M.G.S. and Waterloo pair awarded to Sergeant-Major James McLaughlin, 52nd...
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A rare 12-clasp M.G.S. and Waterloo pair awarded to Sergeant-Major James McLaughlin, 52nd Foot
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. McLaughlin, Serjt. Major, 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. James M’Laughlin. 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, the second with obverse solder deposits at 12 and 3 o’clock, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, the first good very fine (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Provenance: Purchased directly from the new tenants of the late Sergeant’s home at Cheapside, St Helier, in 1961, having been found at the back of an old wall cupboard during restoration work.
James McLaughlin was born circa 1787/88 in the Parish of Ballykally, Newton Limavady, County Londonderry, and enlisted into the Londonderry Militia on 15 March 1803. He volunteeredf or Active Service in a regiment of the line on 9 May 1805, and was sent to join the 52nd Foot shortly afterwards, then stationed at Hythe, being quickly promoted to Corporal on 25 September the same year. He was present with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 and was afterwards went to Portugal and Spain from the summer of 1808. By 1812 he was already a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Colour-Sergeant on 25 June 1813, in Captain Rowan’s No. 8 Company, then to No. 7 Company, and on 25 September 1814 to No. 6 Company where he remained until the end of 1815. He was present at Waterloo as Colour-Sergeant in Major Brownrig’s Company and, on 24 February 1822, he joined the Staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the same rank. In early 1826 he transferred to the ‘Guernsey Staff’ of the Militia there, was promoted to Sergeant-Major and remained on that Staff until being pensioned from the Service on 14 January 1835, being ‘Unfit, chronic rheumatism and infirmity.’ His total Army Service was 31 years 9 months, including 2 years allowance as a ‘Waterloo Man.’ He was awarded a pension of 3/5d a week which he collected in the Jersey District where he lived at St Helier. McLaughlin died at Cheapside, St Helier, of a stroke on 15 December 1850, aged 65, and was buried in the Strangers Cemetery, Westmount.
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Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. McLaughlin, Serjt. Major, 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. James M’Laughlin. 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, the second with obverse solder deposits at 12 and 3 o’clock, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, the first good very fine (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Provenance: Purchased directly from the new tenants of the late Sergeant’s home at Cheapside, St Helier, in 1961, having been found at the back of an old wall cupboard during restoration work.
James McLaughlin was born circa 1787/88 in the Parish of Ballykally, Newton Limavady, County Londonderry, and enlisted into the Londonderry Militia on 15 March 1803. He volunteeredf or Active Service in a regiment of the line on 9 May 1805, and was sent to join the 52nd Foot shortly afterwards, then stationed at Hythe, being quickly promoted to Corporal on 25 September the same year. He was present with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 and was afterwards went to Portugal and Spain from the summer of 1808. By 1812 he was already a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Colour-Sergeant on 25 June 1813, in Captain Rowan’s No. 8 Company, then to No. 7 Company, and on 25 September 1814 to No. 6 Company where he remained until the end of 1815. He was present at Waterloo as Colour-Sergeant in Major Brownrig’s Company and, on 24 February 1822, he joined the Staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the same rank. In early 1826 he transferred to the ‘Guernsey Staff’ of the Militia there, was promoted to Sergeant-Major and remained on that Staff until being pensioned from the Service on 14 January 1835, being ‘Unfit, chronic rheumatism and infirmity.’ His total Army Service was 31 years 9 months, including 2 years allowance as a ‘Waterloo Man.’ He was awarded a pension of 3/5d a week which he collected in the Jersey District where he lived at St Helier. McLaughlin died at Cheapside, St Helier, of a stroke on 15 December 1850, aged 65, and was buried in the Strangers Cemetery, Westmount.
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A rare 12-clasp M.G.S. and Waterloo pair awarded to Sergeant-Major James McLaughlin, 52nd Foot
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. McLaughlin, Serjt. Major, 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. James M’Laughlin. 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, the second with obverse solder deposits at 12 and 3 o’clock, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, the first good very fine (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Provenance: Purchased directly from the new tenants of the late Sergeant’s home at Cheapside, St Helier, in 1961, having been found at the back of an old wall cupboard during restoration work.
James McLaughlin was born circa 1787/88 in the Parish of Ballykally, Newton Limavady, County Londonderry, and enlisted into the Londonderry Militia on 15 March 1803. He volunteeredf or Active Service in a regiment of the line on 9 May 1805, and was sent to join the 52nd Foot shortly afterwards, then stationed at Hythe, being quickly promoted to Corporal on 25 September the same year. He was present with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 and was afterwards went to Portugal and Spain from the summer of 1808. By 1812 he was already a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Colour-Sergeant on 25 June 1813, in Captain Rowan’s No. 8 Company, then to No. 7 Company, and on 25 September 1814 to No. 6 Company where he remained until the end of 1815. He was present at Waterloo as Colour-Sergeant in Major Brownrig’s Company and, on 24 February 1822, he joined the Staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the same rank. In early 1826 he transferred to the ‘Guernsey Staff’ of the Militia there, was promoted to Sergeant-Major and remained on that Staff until being pensioned from the Service on 14 January 1835, being ‘Unfit, chronic rheumatism and infirmity.’ His total Army Service was 31 years 9 months, including 2 years allowance as a ‘Waterloo Man.’ He was awarded a pension of 3/5d a week which he collected in the Jersey District where he lived at St Helier. McLaughlin died at Cheapside, St Helier, of a stroke on 15 December 1850, aged 65, and was buried in the Strangers Cemetery, Westmount.
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Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. McLaughlin, Serjt. Major, 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. James M’Laughlin. 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) fitted with fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, the second with obverse solder deposits at 12 and 3 o’clock, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, the first good very fine (2) £7,000-£9,000
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Provenance: Purchased directly from the new tenants of the late Sergeant’s home at Cheapside, St Helier, in 1961, having been found at the back of an old wall cupboard during restoration work.
James McLaughlin was born circa 1787/88 in the Parish of Ballykally, Newton Limavady, County Londonderry, and enlisted into the Londonderry Militia on 15 March 1803. He volunteeredf or Active Service in a regiment of the line on 9 May 1805, and was sent to join the 52nd Foot shortly afterwards, then stationed at Hythe, being quickly promoted to Corporal on 25 September the same year. He was present with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 and was afterwards went to Portugal and Spain from the summer of 1808. By 1812 he was already a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Colour-Sergeant on 25 June 1813, in Captain Rowan’s No. 8 Company, then to No. 7 Company, and on 25 September 1814 to No. 6 Company where he remained until the end of 1815. He was present at Waterloo as Colour-Sergeant in Major Brownrig’s Company and, on 24 February 1822, he joined the Staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the same rank. In early 1826 he transferred to the ‘Guernsey Staff’ of the Militia there, was promoted to Sergeant-Major and remained on that Staff until being pensioned from the Service on 14 January 1835, being ‘Unfit, chronic rheumatism and infirmity.’ His total Army Service was 31 years 9 months, including 2 years allowance as a ‘Waterloo Man.’ He was awarded a pension of 3/5d a week which he collected in the Jersey District where he lived at St Helier. McLaughlin died at Cheapside, St Helier, of a stroke on 15 December 1850, aged 65, and was buried in the Strangers Cemetery, Westmount.
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