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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 2

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 1 Nov Boat Service 1809, 2 May Boat Service 1813 (James Young.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine

Provenance:
Glendining, July 1921.
Spink, October 1984.

110 '1 Nov Boat Service 1809' clasps, of which three were awarded to the officers of H.M.S. Volontaire.

48 '2 May Boat Service 1813' clasps, of which four were awarded to the officers of H.M.S. Volontaire.

James Young served in the commissioned rank of Armourer in H.M.S. Volontaire, when boats from Captain B. Hallowell's squadron, including from the Volontaire, under the orders of Lieutenant J. Tailour of the Tigre, captured or destroyed a French convoy which consisted of five warships and a number of merchant vessels in Rosas Bay, off the north-east coast of Spain on 1 November 1809.

Young served in the same capacity when on 2 May 1813 the Marines from the Volontaire, Repulse and Undaunted under Captain M. Ennis, R.M., landed and destroyed some newly erected works in the vicinity of Morgiou, near Toulon. The boats from the same ships, under the orders of Lieutenant I. Shaw of the Volontaire, covered by launches and the Redwing brought out six laden merchant vessels. There are six men of the same name listed on the Admiralty Claimants' List, however, the medal appears entirely as issued.


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