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Vessel: 17th Regt Foot (30th Regt)
Recipient: Col. Charles Turner
Type: £100
Action: Loss of his left arm in the repulse of the enemy from Fort St Christoval Badojoz

(10th May, 1811)

Award Date: 16th July, 1811
Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's, to Colonel Charles Turner of the 30th Regiment, in commemoration of his Gallant Conduct in Spain as Recorded in the London Gazette Extraordinary of 3rd. June 1811


Location: Private collection
Appeared at Auction: Czernys 17th Oct 2008; Sothebys 1st July 1987 Lot 220.

References: illustrated in Swords, Daggers & Cutlasses by Gerald Weland

 

 

 


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