Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Martinique (George Bornstead.) nearly extremely fine £600-£800

Provenance: Sotheby, November 1912; Spink, July 1995.

George Bornstead served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Hazard at Martinique. He joined Ajax on 8 July 1808, aged 24, born Sussex, and, according to the ship’s musters was a ‘Deserter from S.B. No. 75’. The Admiralty claims list notes ‘Absent from ship Jany. & Feby. 1810 (Claims also Guadaloupe)’.