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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 99

x Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, 1 Nov Boat Service 1809 (Thomas Bedworth.), contact marks to suspension and claw, edge bruising, very fine Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 Thomas Bedworth served as Boy in H.M.S. Topaze, when boats from Captain B. Hallowell´´s squadron, including from the Topaze, under the orders of Lieutenant J. Tailour of the Tigre, captured or destroyed a French convoy which consisted of five warships and a number of merchant vessels in Rosas Bay, off the north-east coast of Spain, 1.11.1809 Thomas Bedworth, born Birmingham, was a "Marine Society Boy" prior to becoming Boy 3rd Class in H.M.S. Topaze, December 1807; later service included in the Royal William and the Iphigenia. Provenance: Murray Collection Glendining November 1947

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