The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

A rare N.G.S. / Carlist War pair awarded to Gunner George Riddle, Royal Artillery

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Geo. Riddle); Spain, Order of Maria Isabella Louisa, silver cross, unnamed, first with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (2) £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Gunner George Riddle, Royal Artillery, was one of 22 Royal Artillerymen listed aboard H.M.S. Hecate in the operations on and off the coast of Syria 1840, where he served as No. 48 Wagon Lead, No. 1 Gun. He also served with Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun’s Mountain Battery in North Spain during the Carlist War, 1835-37, for which he was awarded the Order of Maria Isabella Louisa.

George Riddle is not amongst those listed in Naval Medals 1793-1856 by Douglas-Morris or in The Military and Naval Medal Magazine as being awarded the Spanish order but is listed as such in The Three Great Retrospective Medals, by Vigors and Macfarlane.