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№ 204

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15 March 2023

Hammer Price:
£1,900

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (William Gardner.) very fine £700-£900

Sotheby, March 1984 (this single clasp).

William Gardner is confirmed on the roll as a sergeant, Royal Marines, aboard H.M.S. Minden at Algiers. He is also shown as being entitled to additional clasps for ‘Trafalgar’ as a Private R.M. aboard Bellerophon, and ‘The Potomac 17 Aug 1814’ as a corporal R.M. aboard Euryalus, but not proven to be one and the same man. There is also another man of this name entitled to the clasp ‘St Domingo’.