Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, The Potomac 17 Aug 1814 (David Lloyd) lacquered, otherwise extremely fine £3000-3500

Confirmed on the rolls as a Supernumerary Boy 2nd Class on board the Seahorse, thirty-eight gun frigate of Captain James Gordon, commanding the British Squadron in the expedition up the Potomac River, 17-29th August 1814.

David Lloyd was born at Greenwich and entered the books of H.M.S. Seahorse as a Supernumerary Boy 2nd Class on 1 November 1813, aged 18 years. He was discharged from the ship on 5 February 1815, having had stopped from his pay £2.6.0 for clothes supplied by the Navy and a further 11s for ‘Dead Mens Clothes.’