Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Richd. Hickson.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £800-1000

Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1905.

Richard Hickson is confirmed on the roll as a Private, Royal Marines, aboard H.M.S. Hebrus. Another man of this name is shown on the roll for Syria, also a Private, Royal Marines, and possibly the same man.