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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 688

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Northumberland 22 May 1812 (Abraham Mogridge.), contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine

Provenance:
Glendining's, July 1953.

Abraham Mogridge/Mogdridge was born at Crediton and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 3rd Class aboard Ethalion at Portsmouth on 3 July 1810. He was paid off a month later and joined Royal William, before moving to Northumberland in September 1810 as Boy 2nd Class. He was present for the action on 22 May 1812 when in company with the Growler gun-brig, she destroyed the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck, whose united fire together with that of a destructive battery, had killed 5 and wounded a further 28 of the crew.

Mogridge joined Puissant in January 1813 and was drafted to Gladiator in March 1813. Raised Ordinary Seaman in August 1813, he was paid off in October 1815 and it is reasonable to assume he left the service at this point; sold together with typed biography.

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Sold for
£2,900

Starting price
£1500