Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (James Mitchell.) contact marks to edge at 6 o’clock, otherwise lightly toned, nearly extremely fine £4,000-£5,000

Provenance: Sotheby, January and November 1977.

James Mitchell is confirmed on the roll as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Dreadnought at Trafalgar. The Hailes roll shows another man of this name in error for Trafalgar as Carpenter’s Crew aboard the Agamemnon, but this should be for a St Domingo clasp, as recorded on other published rolls. Nine other men of this name appear on the rolls for various clasps.