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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 384

Canada General Service 1866-70, one clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (O.S. J. Colbourne H.M.S. Pylandes), letter 'b' double-struck, very fine

Ordinary Seaman Joseph Colbourne, born Havant, Hampshire, 1848; joined the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 1862; service included in H.M.S. Pylades, February 1864-November 1866.

On 3.6.1866 H.M.S. Pylades was in the port of Montreal, having been sent there in response to the Fenian threat. Intelligence reports suggested that some 3,000 Fenians were massing in the general area of Malone and Potsdam, New York State to attack Canada in the Cornwall area. Fifty sailors from the Pylades formed a Naval Brigade and along with 400 regulars from the Rifle Brigade were sent by train from Montreal to Cornwall to counter the threat but the attack never came.

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