The Naval General Service medal awarded to Thomas Ritchings, a Private Royal Marines aboard the Orion at the battle of Trafalgar

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Thomas Ritchings.) nearly very fine £5,000-£7,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas.

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Sotheby, June 1919; Glendining’s, June 1935 and September 1987.

Confirmed on the roll as a Private Royal Marines aboard H.M.S. Orion at Trafalgar.

Thomas Ritchings was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and attested as a Private in the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines on 25 June 1805. He joined H.M.S. Orion on 24 July 1805, from Portsmouth Headquarters, aged 18 years. He was discharged to the Guerrier Hospital ship at Gibraltar on 15 November 1805 for treatment of an ulcer and returned to Orion on 20 May 1806. He was discharged from Orion to Plymouth Headquarters on 13 February 1813, and was ‘set off the rolls’ on 2 September 1814 by reason of ‘discharged - amputated left leg.’

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