The N.G.S. and Boulton’s Trafalgar pair awarded to Commander John Waterman, Royal Navy, a Midshipman aged 14 aboard the Minotaur at Trafalgar

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (John Waterman, Midshipman.); Boulton’s Trafalgar, white metal, fitted with straight bar suspension and Trafalgar clasp both medals fitted with matching contemporary silver ribbon buckles and brooch pins, the second with some corrosion but generally very fine or better (2) £10,000-£14,000

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

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Confirmed on the roll as a Midhipman aboard H.M.S. Minotaur at the battle of Trafalgar.

John Waterman was born in Ashford, Kent, and entered the Navy in April 1803 as First-class Volunteer on board the Minotaur, in which ship he served in the Mediterranean and on various parts of the Home station, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in July 1809. He was present in her as Midshipman, aged 14, at the battle of Trafalgar and in the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. From July 1809 until September 1811 he served in the North Sea and on the coasts of Africa and Ireland in the Dauntless. This was his last appointment and he accepted the rank of Commander on the Retired List in April 1848. Waterman died in Wellesborough in 1859.