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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 211

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8 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Thomas Hill.) suspension slack, edge bruising, nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800

Provenance: Glendining, July 1957; A. Wolfe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005.

Thomas Hill served as a Boy with H.M.S. Venerable during the action on 12 July 1801 with a Franco-Spanish squadron when the Spanish ships Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, each of 112 guns, and the French ship Antoine, of 74 guns, were destroyed in the Gut of Gibraltar. Seven men of this name appear on the published medal roll, including four for ‘Syria’.