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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 74

Alexander Davison's Medal for the Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, pierced with double-ring suspsension, the reverse engraved 'Jo. Lemon Defence', polished and edge wear overall as sometime mounted, fine

John Lemmon, a native of Greenock, Scotland, was 'pressed' into service in February 1795. He served as an Able Seaman aboard Defence at the Battle of Nile, under the command of Capain J. Peyton. She would engage Peuple Souverain, losing her own fore topmast in the process, before sharing in the surrender of Franklin with Swiftsure. Lemmon did not claim his Naval General Service Medal; sold with copied muster rolls.



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Sold for
£180