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Auction: 397 - Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria - e-Auction
Lot: 203

Great Britain. Boulton's Trafalgar Medal, 1805. Blackened White Metal pinned into a silver ring mount with loop. By C.H. Küchler. Uniformed bust left; Battle of Trafalgar scene on reverse. Name engraved on silver ring edge: Edward Hartigan.

Born in Limerick, Edward Hartigan was impressed at the Nore on September 10, 1805. He served at Trafalgar as A.B. aboard the H.M.S. Africa. He survived to receive his Naval General Service Medal, with a single clasp for Trafalgar and his name appears on both the ADM 171 and the Greenwich Hospital rolls. After his discharge in 1815, Hartigan became a shopkeeper. He was entered as an "In Pensioner" at Greenwich in 1843, but on August 6, 1859, he was discharged to be an "Out Pensioner" again at the age of 77.

Some surface corrosion. Very Fine. Ex American Numismatic Society Collection, Morton & Eden, London, October 25-26, 2006, lot 639.

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