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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 282

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Martinique (John Oxford, Midshipman.), edge bruising, therefore very fine

John Oxford served as Midshipman in the H.M.S. Belleisle as part of the combined naval and military assault and capture of the French-held island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, 24.2.1809.

Lieutenant John Oxford joined the Royal Navy as First Class Volunteer, April 1807, and was appointed to the Maida (Captain S. Hood Linzee); he served in H.M.S. Neptune (Captain Sir Thomas Williams), attached to the Channel Fleet, the following year; he served in the Belleisle, Tyrian, Hannibal, Royal George, Rodney, Royal William and the Porcupine, November 1808-November 1815; whilst serving in the Belleisle he assisted at the reduction of Martinique and Flushing in 1809; whilst serving in the Porcupine he was present at the memorable entrance into the Adour of the flotilla under Rear-Admiral Charles Penrose, and at the forcing of the Gironde; he saw subsequent service with the Topaze in the East Indies, before returning to England with the rank of Lieutenant in 1822.

Provenance: Glendining, December 1910
Spink, January 1956

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