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Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 45

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Guadaloupe (W.H. Martin, Midshipman.), minor edge nicks, good very fine Estimate £ 1,400-1,800 William Henry Martin served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Pultusk during the combined naval and military operations commanded by Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane and Lieutenant General Sir George Beckwith which culminated in the capture of the French-held island of Guadaloupe, January-February 1810. Lieutenant William Henry Martin joined the Royal Navy as First Class Volunteer, 26.5.1809, and was posted for service in H.M.S. Antelope (Captain Donald McLeod), the latter bearing the flag of Admiral John Holloway at Newfoundland; in the following September Martin was appointed as Supernumeray Midshipman of the Pompee, the flag-ship of Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alex Cochrane in the West Indies; his employment continued in the same station with the Pultusk and the Wellington; he served in the Papillon (Captain James Hay) on the Cadiz and Lisbon stations for the next four years and nine months; Martin was briefly borne on the books of the Namur, flagship of Sir Charles Rowley at the Nore, 1815, before serving with the Cadmus, Pique, Iphigenia and Sybille on the Home and Jamaica stations, May 1816-December 1820; he was confirmed as Lieutenant (after having acted for a brief period as such in the Euryalus), 6.3.1821; further appointments included to the Albion and the Thetis, he was serving with the latter when she was wrecked near Cape Frio, 5.12.1830. Provenance: Glendining, May 1963

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