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Discharge reason - help
« on: Thursday 12 January 23 12:04 GMT (UK) »
Hi. We are struggling to read this. I can see his leg was amputated but the rest of the words are hard to decipher. Can anyone help me? I’m not used to reading old writing. Thanks in advance.

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Re: Discharge reason - help
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 January 23 12:31 GMT (UK) »
This is my best guess:-

...an amputation of leg accompanied by a wound received in action? ? 1813 is considered unfit for further service abroad? and is paralysed to the ?? and has been ? to the ? Depot in Isle of Wight that his ? may be finally ?

That was the best I could come up with, the writing is difficult and small.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
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Re: Discharge reason - help
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 January 23 13:32 GMT (UK) »
...an amputation of leg occasioned by a wound received in action 10th ....1813 is considered unfit for further service abroad and is proposed to be discharged and has been ordered to the Army Depot on the Isle of Wight that his .?case  may be finally be ?decided on
Perrins - Manchester and Staffs
Honan - Manchester and Ireland
Hogg - Manchester 19 cent
Anderson - Newcastle mid 19 cent
Boullen - London then Carlisle then Manchester
Comer - Manchester and Galway

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Re: Discharge reason - help
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 January 23 13:40 GMT (UK) »
My reading is almost the same; I think a bit has been cut off the left hand edge:

... an amputated leg occassioned [sic] by a wound received
[in?] action 10th Novr 1813 is considered unfit for further service abroad and is proposed to be
discharged & has been ordered to the Army Depot in the Isle of Wight that his case may be finally
.... on

The word at the start of the last line is troublesome.
Researching among others:
Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

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Re: Discharge reason - help
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 January 23 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Thanks all, much appreciated. I know he was admitted to the Chelsea pensioners hospital in March 1815 so I had assumed he lost his leg closer to then. I had thought he was with his battalion in Canada in 1814 but this makes it sound like he couldn’t have been. Thanks