LONG SERVICE & GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL WILLIAM IV TO Q. MASTER SERJ. T. BAXTER, 53RD REGIMENT FOOT

Thomas Baxter was born in the Parish of Castle Pollard, near Mullingar, County Westmeast, and enlisted into the 41st Foot at Dublin on 28 May 1812, aged 15 years, a tin plate worker by trade.

He was stationed in England until September 1813, when he joined the 2nd battalion at Queenstown Heights, Upper Canada. He afterwards served in France from July 1815, having been promoted to Corporal the previous month.

He was promoted to Sergeant in November 1819 and proceeded to Madras with the regiment in 1822. He transferred to the 53rd Foot on 25 January 1823, and served with them at Gibraltar, Malta and the Ionian Islands. He was promoted to Quarter-Master Sergeant on 20 January 1830, and was discharged at his own request, at Corfu, on 12 July 1837, intending to reside and collect his pension in Edinburgh.

His pension was later paid at Quebec, Canada, where he died on 13 February 1847.

Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm that ‘Thomas Baxter, now Quarter-Master Sergeant of the 53rd Regt., served in America and France with the 41st Regiment.’