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MGS BOYCE

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Officers Military General Service to Captain Henry Boyce, 3rd Foot Guards

Two clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor officially named to: Henry Boyce, Capt. 3rd Ft. Gds.

Toned, extremely fine.

Provenance: Spink, November 1950; Glendining, March 1969; Spink, March 1979.
Henry Pytches Boyce was born in Norwich, Norfolk, on 16 November 1786. He was appointed Lieutenant & Captain in the 3rd Foot Guards on 23 July 1807. He served in the Peninsula from November 1809 to September 1811, and was present at the battles of Busaco and Fuentes D’Onor. He retired from the Army on 29 December 1811, and was married on 22 September 1812 to Lady Amelia Sophia Spencer, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Caroline Russell. She died in January 1829 and he married secondly Caroline Cooke on 16 August 1831. Henry Boyce died in Mitcham, Surrey, on 21 August 1858.

Product Code: EM3953

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