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№ 419

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£4,200

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (George Price.) edge bruising, heavily worn and pitted, fair only £2,000-£3,000

George Price is a unique name and is confirmed on the rolls as a Private, Royal Marines, aboard H.M.S. Neptune at Trafalgar. Born at Upton Bishop, Hereford, he enlisted into the Plymouth Division at Gloucester on 7 June 1805, aged 17, a labourer by trade. He was discharged, lamed thigh, on 20 June 1814.