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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 4

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gaieta 24 July 1815, (Thomas Smith) pawnbroker's mark to rim at claw, hints of verdigris around suspension and a few slight contact marks to obverse, very fine

Provenance:
Glendinings, July 1946.
Spink, March 1995.

Two men of this name noted with this clasp to the same ship, one a seaman and the other a Royal Marine. Malta saw action during the siege and attack on the Fortress of Gaeta in the summer of 1815.

The Malta acted as flagship for Captain William Fahie, commander of naval forces off Italy during the Hundred Days campaign - it was he and a small squadron which provided support to an Austrian force besieging the town during the Neapolitan War of 1815. For his efforts, Fahie was shortly afterward created a Companion of the Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit.

Note that there are 20 'Thomas Smith's' on the Medal Roll with entitlement to single-clasp Naval General Service Medals.

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£480