Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Job Wickham.) minor marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £2400-2600

Job Wickham is confirmed on the rolls as a Boy 3rd Class aboard H.M.S. Audacious during the action on 12 July 1801 with a Franco-Spanish squadron when the Spanish ships Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, each of 112 guns, and the French ship Antoine, of 74 guns, were destroyed in the Gut of Gibraltar.

Job Wickham was born in Bedford, Wiltshire, circa 1785, and joined the Audacious as a Boy 3rd Class on 22 March 1801, aged 16 years. Sold with copied muster roll entry.