The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals (Part 1)

Pair: India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Nicholas Littleton, Surgn. “Bittern”); Baltic 1854-55 (Surgn. “Rosamond”) contemporary engraved naming, nearly extremely fine (2)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals.

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The BITTERN was during this same Commission later engaged on many anti-piracy patrols off Hong Kong. The published despatches make stirring reading, in which the names of some seamen and marines are specifically mentioned for gallantry. The lists of BITTERN’S men wounded by the pirates, who would have been tended by Surgeon Littleton, include names, rates and the ‘hurt’ incurred (See London Gazette 1865, p 105). Littleton was Surgeon of the paddle-wheel steam sloop ROSAMOND in the Baltic and retired as Fleet Surgeon in April 1874.