Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (Wm. Hutchinson) nearly extremely fine £500-600

The only rating by the name of William Hutchinson shown on the published rolls is entitled to Navarino as Captain of the Forecastle aboard the Talbot, and also to Syria as Quartermaster aboard the Benbow. There are two entries for William Hutchinson on the Admiralty clasp application lists; one as a single-clasp Navarino (ref H/201) and one as a two-clasp medal (ref H/53). It is possible that these are in fact two different men, even though they are both shown in the same rate and ship for Navarino. The two-clasp medal was in the Murray collection 1926, and was also the recipient of an anchor type L.S. & G.C. which Douglas-Morris records as known to exist.