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Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Surgn. James Ellis.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, dark toned, good very fine £1,200-£1,500

Surgeon R.N., H.M.S. Champion. 19 medals to this ship.

James Ellis entered the Navy as Assistant-Surgeon on 5 April 1814, between which period and the end of 1821, he served alternately on the Home and North American stations in the York 74, Captain Alexander Wilmot Schomberg, Champlain 32, Captain Thomas Duell, Driver 18, Captain Charles Hope Reid, Mersey 20, Captain Charles Edward Collier, and Newcastle 60, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edward Griffith. In October 1822 he was appointed to the Sybille 44, Captain Joshua Ricketts Rowley, in the West Indies, where he was nominated, 16 April 1823, Acting Surgeon of the Serapis convalescent ship, at Jamaica, Lieut.-Commander George Vernon Jackson, to which vessel he was confirmed 26 July following. He returned to England in May 1824, and was afterwards employed - from 1 February 1825 until 1828, in the Champion 18, Captains John Fitzgerald Studdert and George Delme, in the East India station, where he assisted in the closing operations of the first Burmese war - and from 14 April 1846 until December 1852, in the Crescent receiving-ship at Rio de Janeiro, under Lieutenants William Glassford Hemsworth and Thomas Charles Meheux, and Master George Lee Bradley. He was placed on the retired list in 1853 and died at Pimlico, London, on 17 April 1863. Sold with copied record of service.