Pair: Corporal W. McFarlane, 91st Foot, Military General Service, five clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (91st Regt.); Waterloo (Corp., 1st Batt. 91st Reg. Foot), this last fitted with integral loop and hinged-bar suspension, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine, the second good very fine (2)

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Pair: Corporal W. McFarlane, 91st Foot, Military General Service, five clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (91st Regt.); Waterloo (Corp., 1st Batt. 91st Reg. Foot), this last fitted with integral loop and hinged-bar suspension, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine, the second good very fine (2)

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Corporal William McFarlane was born in Stirling and enlisted in the 91st Foot in Edinburgh in late 1808. In a subsequent career spanning nearly 20 years with the Colours, he served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in Captain T.H. Blair's No. 7 Company, and briefly left the Service during the course of 1816. McFarlane was finally discharged in Jamaica as a result of 'ill-health from repeated attacks of fever' in December 1827, his conduct being described as 'Good'.