Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The unique N.G.S. and M.G.S. pair awarded to Private James Bull, 57th Foot, late Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (James Bull); Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Busaco, Vittoria, Pyrenees (James Bull, 57th Foot) toned, good very fine (2)
£6000-8000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R.W. Gould, M.B.E..

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Ex Whitaker Collection, Glendining, July 1956.

James Bull was born in Wiltshire (town indistinct on papers) and served in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Spencer at the Gut of Gibraltar in July 1801. He enlisted into the 2nd Battalion of the 57th Foot on 1 February 1803 and was discharged on 13 November 1815, in consequence of ‘loss of sight contracted in Spain in 1812 and in America in 1814’. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.