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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (Benj. Duson.) dark toned, lightly polished, otherwise very fine £800-£1,000

Benjamin Duson is confirmed on the roll as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Attentive at the capture of Guadaloupe.

His record of services shows Benjamin Dewson, alias Duson, aged approximately 15, from Bristol, was ‘Prest’ into service aboard Orinoco as a Boy on 28 August 1806, but is noted as having ‘Run, Trinidad’ on 7 October 1807. However, he was back in service several weeks later, joining Attentive on 21 October 1807, rated as a Landsman. Whilst in Attentive, a 14-gun brig, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Carr, he saw a fair amount of action around the Leeward Islands, including the cutting out of the French corvette Nisus, cutting out of several smaller vessels, capture of the Spanish privateer Nuestra Senora del Carmen, the capture of the French corvette Oreste, and the operations at the capture of the island of Guadaloupe. He served briefly in Malacca in November 1810, as Landsman, before joining Namur on 30 November, rated as an Able Seaman and served continuously thereafter in San Juan from 10 August 1812, Revenge from 10 January 1813, and Clorinde from 11 September 1814, from which ship he was paid off on 13 July 1816. He saw no further until 1 July 1828, when he joined Java as an Able Seaman until 28 January 1830. On 27 March 1840, Duson’s ‘Run’ from 1807 was removed from his record by Admiralty Order. Sold with copied record of service.