The rare N.G.S. and M.G.S. pair to Private James Bull, 57th Foot, late Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (James Bull); Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Busaco, Vittoria, Pyrenees (James Bull, 57th Foot) toned, good very fine (2) £4000-5000

Ex Whitaker collection (Glendining, July 1956).

James Bull served as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Spencer at the Gut of Gibraltar in July 1801. He enlisted into the 2nd Battalion of the 57th Foot on 1 February 1803 and was discharged on 13 November 1813, in consequence of ‘loss of sight contracted in Spain in 1812 and in America in 1814’.