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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 284

A Fine 'Algiers' N.G.S. to Lieutenant G.H. Heathcote, Royal Navy, Who As a Midshipman in H.M.S. Glasgow, Took Part in the Bombardment of the Fortified Town, 27.8.1816, and Was Wounded During the Action
Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers (G.H. Heathcote, Midshipman.), minor edge nicks, therefore very fine

George Henry Heathcote served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Glasgow when the combined English and Dutch fleets attacked the heavily fortified town of Algiers, 27.8.1816. British casualties amounted to 128 killed, 690 wounded; the Dutch suffered 13 killed and 52 wounded. The Glasgow, Granicus, Impregnable, Leander and Superb had their masts and yards greatly damaged.

Lieutenant George Henry Heathcote, born 1798; joined the Royal Navy, 1812, and was appointed to H.M.S. Medina (Captain H. Bouchier) on the Newfoundland station; after service with the Ister in the West Indies he was appointed to H.M.S. Conqueror (flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robert Plampin), at St Helena, 1815; served in H.M.S. Glasgow (Captain the Hon. Anthony Maitland) at Algiers, 27.8.1816, where he was wounded; served in H.M.S. Liffey prior to promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 1824; subsequent appointments included in H.M. ships Revolutionnaire (Captain the Hon. Fleetwood Pellew) and Rochfort (flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore).

Provenance: Glendining, September 1923

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