Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Thos. Price.) minor edge bruise and edge nicks, nearly extremely fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1905.

Thomas Price served as a Private, Royal Marines, in H.M.S. Beagle during Lord Cochrane’s successful destruction of a number of French ships, including four ships of the line, in the Basque Roads, off St. Nazaire, on 11-12 April 1809.