Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (J. F. Guyon, Lieut. R.N.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1200-1400

John Frederick Guyon was born on 21 November 1807, and joined the Navy in February 1823 as a First Class Volunteer on board the Tribune 42 (Captain G. H. Guion) in the boats of which frigate he served at the capture of several piratical vessels in the Grecian Archipelago. In the course of 1826 he successively joined the Gloucester 74, and Ganges 84, then about to assume the direction of naval affairs in South America. In September 1829, a few months after he had passed his examination, Mr Guyon returned to England. He subsequently joined, as Mate, 10 June 1830, the Ganges again, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; 21 April 1832, the Trinculo 18, off the coast of Ireland; 9 November following, the Malabar 74, in which vessel he returned to the Mediterranean, and there served, latterly in the Canopus 84, until February 1837; and 9 August 1837, the Rhadamanthus steam vessel, employed on the same station. His appointments, as Lieutenant, which rank he attained 28 June 1838, were, also in the Mediterranean, 25 July 1838, to the Barham 50; 19 November 1839, to the Cyclops steamer, Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, in which vessel he participated in the capture of the castle of Gebail, the town of Sidon, and other places on the coast of Syria; and, 3 February 1841, to the Hastings 72. He was placed on half-pay in February 1842, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 17 January 1860.