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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 273

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Off Tamatave 20 May 1811 (Thos. Hewitt.), suspension claw re-affixed, officially re-impressed naming, very fine Estimate £ 600-800 Thomas Hewitt served as Landsman in H.M.S. Phoebe as part of Rear Admiral Stopford´s squadron that engaged three French 40-gun frigates (Renommee, Clorinde and Nereide) off the east coast of Madagascar, May 1811, when the Phoebe lost seven men killed and twenty-four wounded.

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£700