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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 170

A Fine Victorian Naval Campaign Group of Seven to Rear-Admiral J.S. Hudson, Royal Navy
India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Pegu (Josh. S. Hudson. Midn. "Fox"); Baltic 1854, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, two clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, two clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858, unnamed as issued; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast Badge, 68mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 48mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, a contemporary Hunt and Roskell issue, unnamed; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier's breast Badge, 64mm including crown suspension x 41mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, significant enamel damage to tips on last, otherwise the group nearly extremely fine, contemporarily mounted on two silver riband bars, each medal having a top silver riband buckle, and housed in a contemporary fitted case, the case slightly damaged (7)

France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier, London Gazette 1.5.1857 Lieutenant Joseph Samuel Hudson
'For distinguished services before the enemy during the late War.'

Turkey, Order of the Medjidieh, 5th Class, London Gazette 3.4.1858 Lieutenant Joseph Samuel Hudson
'For distinguished services before the enemy during the late War.'

Rear-Admiral Joseph Samuel Hudson, born June 1834; entered the Royal Navy as a Midshipman, and served in H.M.S. Fox during the Second Anglo-Burmese War; promoted Lieutenant, June 1854; served during the Crimean War in command of the gunboat H.M.S. Jasper, which was blown-up whilst grounded on the Krivaia in the Sea of Azoff, 24.7.1855; and of the gunboat H.M.S. Clinker, a tender to H.M.S. Royal Albert; for his services during the Crimean War created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and awarded the Fifth Class of the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh; subsequently served during the Second China War in Command of H.M.S. Leven, and present at the bombardment and capture of the Taku Forts on the Peiho River, 20.5.1858, on which occasion the Leven conveyed the French storming parties (Admiral Seymour's Despatch, London Gazette 28.7.1858 refers); promoted Commander, January 1861; Captain, January 1867; appointed to the command of H.M.S. Spartan, for service in the West Indies, September 1872; placed on the Retired list, October 1873; promoted Rear-Admiral, March 1885; died at Hythe, Southampton, June 1909.

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