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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 3

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Wm. Gilbert), backstrap of clasp slightly distorted, edge bruise and traces of lacquer, otherwise good very fine

Provenance:
Glendining's, February 1980
Sotheby, October 1983.

William Gilbert served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the 80-gun H.M.S. Caesar, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, as part of the successful attack upon the Franco-Spanish squadrons under the enemy batteries in Algeçiras Bay on 12 July 1801, which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish three-decker, 112-gun, Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, together with the French 74-gun St. Antione; one other man of this name appears on the Admiralty Claimants' List for a single clasp award for Syria.

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Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000

Starting price
£1600