Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 832

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£5,800

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Java, Gluckstadt 5 Jany 1814 (John Tulloh, Lieut. R.N.) severe edge bruising, otherwise very fine £4000-5000

Ex Glendining's, March 1941, and Spink, September 2001. 

The rolls confirm John Tulloh as a Lieutenant aboard the Illustrious for the operations leading to the capture of Java in September 1811, and as a Lieutenant of the Desiree for the capture of the Fortess of Gluckstadt on 5.1.1814, the latter clasp being one of just 42 on the Admiralty roll.

John Tulloh entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Raisonnable in May 1803, but quickly attained the rank of Midshipman and was removed to the Combatant in March 1805. Two more seagoing appointments followed on the Mediterranean and West Indies Stations, including service as a Midshipman in the Modeste, in which ship he participated in a 'running action of nearly an hour' with the French National Corvette La Jena, an engagement that resulted in the latter's capture and the death of the Modeste's Master.

In May 1810, Tulloh was appointed Acting Lieutenant of the Sloop
Dasher and in April of the following year removed to the Illustrious. In the latter ship he was present at the reduction of Java, a further stint of active service following in May 1814, by which time he had been appointed to the command of a Gunboat on the Elbe - he was 'Mentioned' by Captain Arthur Farquhar of the Desiree in his Despatch for his command of No. 4 Gunboat (London Gazette 15 January 1814). Tulloh's last appointment afloat was in the Archer in 1815, but he gained an appointment in the Naval Hospital at Plymouth in February 1837.