A percentage of Peninsular Medals to the 5th Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers) were destroyed in a fire during the Blitz in 1940. Some of the fire damaged ones are in the Alnwick Fusiliers Museum. Mullen notes for some individual medals "Regimental Museum. In poor condition and without bars, having been salvaged from a 2nd Bn. property destroyed during the London Blitz, Sept 1940." I think quite a few were destroyed completely unfortunately.
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