Essex Light Dragoons, a group of three Volunteer medals. French Revolutionary Wars.
£595.00
Essex Light Dragoons, a group of three Volunteer medals:
Silver engraved medal (1795), 52mm., with reeded rim, a crown surmounting a garter with usual motto, within the garter the emblem of Essex (3 sceaxes), below on a scroll ‘Tebor’; rev: ‘Essex Light Dragoons. Reward for Military Virtue from Col. Montague Burgoyne’, surrounded by a palm wreath, small loop for suspension;
silver engraved medal (1799), inscribed ‘Courage Tempered by Humanity. Swords June 24th 1799’; rev: ‘A Token of Merit Coll. M. Burgoyne to Serjt. Jn o. Jennings Essex Lt. Ds.’, pierced and fitted with small ring and later silver bar suspension (from a Military Cross);
Struck copper medal circa 1800, 40mm, similar in design to the engraved medal of 1795,
Raised in March 1794 by Montague Burgoyne, of Harlow, the Essex Light Dragoons saw service in Ireland at the time of the French invasion in 1798. It was disembodied sometime in 1799 and, to mark the occasion each officer and man who had served throughout the regiment’s existence was presented with a medal by their Commanding Officer.
The last fine, otherwise very fine
Ex-Jack Webb Collection.
Ex Spinks. 1/24
Referenced in Balmer, V333, Add 171, and V334C.
John Jennings served in the Essex Light Dragoons, being promoted to Sergeant in June 1798 and to Quartermaster in January 1800. Swords is a village on the road to Lusk, about 10 miles north of Dublin. In the period covering the date shown on his Medal, 24 June 1799, he is shown as being on ‘Detachment, Man of War,’ but note that Man of War is a small hamlet, part of Lusk.
An interesting and rare group of volunteer medals.
