 38th Regiment of Foot. The 1st Staffordshire Regiment. Faithful and Meritorious Service, ca. 1815. Gilt brass. Very Fine. Unnamed. 41.2 mm. Tancred, p.330, Ballmer R309c. Integral loop mount. The medal is also known in silver. The regiment was one of the first dispatched to America, arriving in Boston in 1774. It fought around Boston during that city's siege by General Washington and at Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. The regiment spent most of the rest of the war stationed in New York City, returning to Great Britain on the close of hostilities in 1783.
Ex Sotheby's sale of May 1, 1969, lot 263.
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