Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Domingo (Peter Johnson.) damage from brooch mounting to obverse and edges at either side, suspension re-fixed, contact marks, therefore good fine £1500-1800

The roll confirms Peter Johnson as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Northumberland at St Domingo, and also shows entitlement to the clasp for Guadaloupe as Acting Master of the Surinam. One other man of this name is shown on the roll for Syria but his medal is known (Dixon’s, December 1999) and is named ‘Johnstone’.

Peter Johnson was born at Minehead, Somerset, circa 1786. He is first traced aboard H.M.S. Salvadore del Mundo in December 1803, from which ship he was discharged in December 1803 to H.M.S. Dragon for transport to H.M.S. Northumberland. He appears on the Northumberland musters from December 1803 to March 1806, rated as Ordinary Seaman. He was wounded at the battle of St Domingo (London Gazette 1806) and was invalided to the Barbados Hospital on 8 March 1806. He was discharged from hospital in June 1806 for passage to England in Agamemnon and Margaretta. In August 1809 he entered Surinam as Acting Master, serving extensively in the West Indies, and on the same station subsequently in Neptune, Statira, and Perlen, until paid off on 11 April 1812. Sold with copied muster rolls and other research.