Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 182

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. G. Casswell), short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1400-1800

Commander George Caswell entered the Royal Navy in 1808 as a Second Class Volunteer on board H.M.S Parthian, and that same year fought his first action when his ship engaged three men of war. He assisted at the capture of the noted privateer La Nouvelle Gironde, 5th May 1809, and was employed subsequently at the bombardment of Flushing. Appointed Midshipman 1810, he transferred to H.M.S. Christian VII and then to H.M.S. Caledonia in which he served until September 1814, during the latter period he took part in two engagements with the French fleet off Toulon, 5th November 1813 and 13th February 1814, also serving on shore at the reduction of Genoa. Caswell was promoted Lieutenant in 1815 and, then serving in H.M.S. Minstrel, he returned home in her, and was paid off in December of that year; he was appointed First Lieutenant of H.M.S. Champion in December 1824, serving in her during the Burmese War. He attained the rank of Commander in 1846. Sold with copied research.