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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 242

Pair: Lieutenant E.A.T. Lloyd, Royal Navy
Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (E.A.T. Lloyd, Midshipman.), minor edge bruise, with contemporary silver riband buckle and gold retaining pin; St. Jean d'Acre 1840, silver, pierced for ring suspension, as issued, with contemporary silver top riband bar, good very fine (2)

Edward Lloyd served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Rodney during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

Lieutenant Edward Alexander Tylden Lloyd, R.N., entered the Royal Navy, 1833; served as Mate in H.M. Ships Rodney and Madagascar on the Mediterranean and Home stations; passed his examination January 1841, and whilst serving in H.M.S. Queen (flag ship of Sir Edward Owen) was promoted Lieutenant in honour of Queen Victoria's visit to the ship whilst she was lying at Spithead, 1842; subsequent appointments included to H.M. Ships Vernon, Geyser and Orestes, before being attached to the gunnery-ship H.M.S. Excellent, at Portsmouth, 1845; appointed to H.M.S. Dragon, on the Lisbon station, May 1847, and to the command of H.M.S. Lucifer, September 1848.

Provenance: Glendining, November 1951
Spink, February 1980

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