British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, reverse contemporarily engraved, ‘To J. Belcher of his Majys. Ship Audacious’, unmounted, slight contact marks, very fine £500-600

John Belcher was entered on to the books of the Audacious as an Ordinary Seaman on 1 August 1796. He did not live to make a claim for the N.G.S. with the ‘Nile’ clasp.