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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 108

x Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (James Flexman.), toned, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 2,400-2,800 James Flexman served as Second Lieutenant, Royal Marines in H.M.S. Illustrious during Lord Cochrane´s successful destruction of a number of French ships. including four ships of the line, in the Basque Roads, off St. Nazaire, 11-12.4.1809. Second Lieutenant James Flexman, commissioned Royal Marines, January 1808; after service with H.M.S. Illustrious, he was ´attached to the Clorinde (Captains Thomas Briggs and Samuel Petchell). During that period he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to Walcheren, where he acted as Quarter-Master to the R.M. Battalion. He was also present at the reduction of the Isle of France, in December, 1810, and was employed for some time in the China sea. From Jan. until Aug, 1815, he served with Capt. George Rose Sartorious, in the Slaney, in which vessel he witnessed the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte to Capt. Frederick Lewis Maitland, of the Bellerophon.´ (O´Byrne refers)

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