Orders, Decorations and Medals

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 4 clasps, 1 June 1794, St. Vincent, Nile, Trafalgar (Joseph Lenard) suspension claw re-fixed, otherwise good very fine and scarce £4500-5500

See Colour Plate VII

Ex Whalley Collection 1877, Sang Collection 1931 and David Spink Collection 1985.

Joseph Lenard is confirmed on the rolls as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Culloden at the first three actions, and as Yeoman of Sheets aboard the frigate Naiad at Trafalgar. This frigate repeated Nelson’s famous signal to the fleet and after the battle was almost swamped after taking the Bellisle in tow.