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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 494

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, 23 Nov Boat Service 1810 (Chas. Cork, Midshipman.), reverse of suspension claw missing, minor edge bruising, very fine

Charles Cork served as Midshipman in H.M.S. St. Albans, when bomb-vessels together with a number of English and Spanish mortar and gunboats under the command of Captain Robert Hall attacked a French flotilla of gunboats at Port St. Mary, Cadiz, 23.11.1810.

Approximately 42 clasps claimed for this action.

Provenance: Glendining, December 1966
Spink, April 2009

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