Pair: Captain John Griffith, 12th Light Dragoons, later 5th Dragoon Guards, 28th Foot and 1st West India Regiment; Military General Service, four bars, Egypt, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (Adjt. 12th. Lt. Dgns.), Waterloo (Adjutant 12th Reg. Light Dragoon), silver ring and straight bar suspension, N of Dragoon additionally engraved, this very fine, first medal extremely fine, with double silver riband buckle (2)

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Pair: Captain John Griffith, 12th Light Dragoons, later 5th Dragoon Guards, 28th Foot and 1st West India Regiment; Military General Service, four bars, Egypt, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (Adjt. 12th. Lt. Dgns.), Waterloo (Adjutant 12th Reg. Light Dragoon), silver ring and straight bar suspension, N of Dragoon additionally engraved, this very fine, first medal extremely fine, with double silver riband buckle (2)

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INDENTCaptain John Griffith served with the 12th Light Dragoons as Regimental Sergeant Major in Egypt 1801, and was wounded in the left thigh, 21 March; served in the Peninsula from July 1812; Cornet and Adjutant, 29th July 1813; Lieutenant, May 1815; Adjutant, 5th Dragoon Guards, April 1823; Lieutenant 28 Foot, 15 October 1829; Captain, 1st West India Regiment, 28 June 1839; retired on full-pay 1846; Captain Griffith died 1859

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