Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 902

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£430

Three: Able Seaman John Buddell, Royal Navy, later Commissioned Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (John Buddell); Baltic 1854-55 (H.M.S. Edfinburgh); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, generally good very fine (3) £350-400

Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Edinburgh during the operations off the coast of Syria, and Able Seaman aboard the same ship in the Baltic operations. He subsequently joined the Coast Guard and served at Sizewell Gap and Hamble Point before his discharge to pension in December 1860. Sold with a large quantity of research.