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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 12

China 1842 (Thomas Rainsbury, H.M.S. Endymion), with former Spink stock ticket attached '15/-', good very fine

Provenance:
D.N.W., June 2006, ex-Kuriheka Collection.

One of only 267 such medals issued to this vessel.

Thomas Rainsbury enlisted with the Royal Navy on 21 April 1828, being first posted to the sloop Orestes. Serving with her until 9 March 1831, he went ashore and remained their until being posted to the Battleship Asia on 5 July of that year and remaining with her until 23 July 1834. Posted to the third-rate Edinburgh on 20 August 1837 he remained with her for the next two years, during which she was on station in the Mediterranean.

Rainsbury left Edinburgh just prior to her service in the Egyptian–Ottoman War, instead joining the aging fourth-rate Endymion on 22 October 1840. With this vessel he went into action during the First Opium War, while she commanded by Captain- later Admiral- Sir Frederick William Grey. Returning to England on 3 July 1843 he was discharged two days later on 5 July 1843. Grey was later a Greenwich Hospital Pensioner; sold together with a former auction listing, service record and a Greenwich Pensioners record sheet.

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£280