Watch List notes:

Military General Service, 1793-1814, single clasp, Salamanca (A. F. Paxton, Lieut 11th Dgns), minor obverse edge nick and reverse edge bruises, very fine. Archibald Frederick Paxton (1793-1875) was born in 1793, the son of Sir William Paxton, Knt., of Middleton Hall, Co. Carmarthen. He was educated at Harrow and joined the 11th Dragoons as a Cornet in June 1811, at the age of 17, being promoted to Lieutenant (without purchase) in December of the same year. He served with his regiment as part of Captain Barrett's Troop in the Peninsula between May 1812 and June 1813, being present at the Battle of Salamanca. The day after Salamanca, the 11th Light Dragoons were in support of the King's German Legion Cavalry in pursuit of the French at Garcia Hernandez. Lieutenant Paxton was also present at the skirmish at Morisco on 20-22 June, and at Castrejon on 18 July. He retired on reserved half-pay on 23 July, 1817, and was later a Magistrate for Wiltshire, residing at Cholderton, near Salisbury. He died on 11 April 1875, at 5 Devonshire Place, Portland Place, London. Ex Dix, Noonan & Webb, March 1996 and C.J. Dixon, 2003.