Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Off Tamatave 20 May 1811 (Thos. Hewitt.) suspension claw re-affixed, naming officially re-impressed, otherwise very fine £600-£800

Provenance: Spink, July 2010.

Thomas Hewitt served as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Phoebe as part of Rear-Admiral Stopford’s squadron that engaged three French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde and Néride, off the east coast of Madagascar on 20 May 1811, when the Phoebe lost seven men killed and twenty-four wounded.