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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (F. Rogers, Lieut. R.N.) fitted with an unusual silver top ribbon brooch with bar inscribed ‘Algiers’ with good pin, attractively toned, brilliant extremely fine and as struck £1,800-£2,200

Frederick Rogers was born on 8 March 1794, and entered the Navy on 14 January 1809, as First-Class Volunteer, on board the Royal George 100, Captain Richard Dalling Dunn, bearing the flag of Sir John Thomas Duckworth in the Channel. In the course of the same year he joined the San Josef 110, flagship of the same Admiral at Plymouth, and Africaine 38, Captain Richard Raggett, stationed on the coast of North America. Between June 1810 and April 1815, he was employed at Newfoundland as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Antelope 50 and Bellerophon 74, bearing the flags of Sir J. T. Duckworth and Sir Richard Goodwin Keats; and in Sept. 1815, at which period he was serving with Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean on board the Boyne 98, he was presented with a commission dated 8th of the preceding March. He then joined, for a few weeks, the Partridge sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye; and was subsequently appointed – 7 June 1816, to the Jasper 10, Captain Thomas Carew, stationed in the Channel – 12 July following, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, under whom he fought at Algiers – 13 November 1816, to the Impregnable 100, bearing the flag of the same nobleman and of Sir J. T. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he remained, latterly as Acting-Flag-Lieutenant, until April 1821 – for a short time in November 1828, to the Victor 18, Captain George Lloyd, from which vessel he was sent to sick-quarters at Teneriffe in consequence of a severe injury occasioned by the fall of a block – and, in October 1830, to the Ganges 84, Captain George Burdett, on the Mediterranean station. He attained the rank of Commander on 3 June 1831, but was not since afloat.

Commander Rogers married, in October 1823, Miss Charlotte Bridgeman Willyams, of Breage, co. Cornwall.