Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 1 Nov Boat Service 1809 (Thos. Bruckwith.) good very fine £2,400-£2,800

Provenance: Glendining’s, April 1909; Spink, December 1988.

Approximately 110 clasps issued for this action.

Thomas Bruckwith (also Brickwith and Brickworth) was born at Ripon, Yorkshire, and served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Cumberland for the boat service action in the Bay of Rosas on 1 November 1809, when a French convoy of five warships and various merchant vessels was captured or destroyed.