Watch List notes:

Military General Service, 1793-1814, single clasp, Salamanca (Jon Cutting, Corpl 4th Foot.), lightly polished with occasional light marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine. Corporal John Cutting enlisted for service with the Colours at Bury St Edmunds on 2 March 1807, with genealogical research suggesting that he was from Ickworth, Suffolk. He initially served in Captain Jones's Company and was promoted to Corporal on 25 April 1809, and then to Sergeant on 4 December that year. He served in the Peninsula War in Spain in Lieutenant James C. Edgell's 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion, 4th (Lancashire) Foot, and was present at the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812, as well as at Villa Muriel and Tordesillas in October 1812 (where Lieutenant Edgell was severely wounded on 25 October). He was reduced to Corporal on 16 January 1813, and is last recorded in the muster rolls in December 1815. Ex Glendining, April 1953 and New Zealand Collector Services, 2011, having survived the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.