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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 210

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8 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£8,000

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Nile (Joshua Office.) light marks to obverse, otherwise good very fine £4,600-£5,000

Confirmed on the roll as a Private, Royal Marines, aboard Rear-Admiral Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Vanguard (Captain Edward Berry) at the battle of the Nile.

Joshua Office was born in the Parish of Attleborough, near Norwich, Norfolk, and served as a Private in the Royal Marines from October 1796 to May 1802. He re-enlisted for the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers in March 1803 and served a further 14 years and 90 days as a Driver in the Adjutant’s Detachment of the Corps. He was discharged with ‘chronic rheumatism’ at Woolwich on 31 March 1817, then being aged about 38, and was placed upon the Pension List at One Shilling per diem. Sold with copied discharge papers.