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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 290

(x) Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (James Edcombe.), light contact marks, therefore very fine

James Edgcombe served as Private, Royal Marines in H.M.S. Albion during the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827. The morning after the battle Admiral Sir Edward Codrington described the state of the Turkish fleet as such, 'Out of a fleet composed of eighty-one-men-of-war, only one frigate and fifteen smaller vessels are in a state to ever put to sea again.'

Private James Edgcombe was born in Underwood, Devon, and was enlisted by Lieutenant Edwards at the Royal Marines Head Quarters, 22.6.1825, aged 19; discharged to Plymouth Hospital suffering from paralysis of his left arm, 4.10.1830.

Provenance: Needes Collection, April 1940.

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