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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 295

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Navarino, Syria (Charles Keys, Gunner.), very fine

Charles Keys served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Philomel at 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 to put to sea again'; Keys later served as Gunner in H.M.S. Stromboli on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

Provenance:
Glendining December 1904 and November 1915
Spink February 1976
Turl Collection, Spink July 2010


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