Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (John Kimber.) minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £1,000-£1,400

John Kimber is confirmed on the roll for Java as a Landsman and Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Bucephalus.

John Kimber was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Bermondsey, Surrey, and was originally enlisted at Norwich by Lieutenant Welchman as a 3rd Class Private with the Royal Marines, 40th Company, Chatham Division, on 15 June 1807, aged 19, a tanner by trade. He served in Resolution as a Private from 26 July to 25 December 1807, when he was discharged to ‘the Chatham Pay Lists’. There is no trace of Kimber in the musters until 13 July 1810, when he entered Bucephalus as a Royal Navy Landsman, a Volunteer from Diomede (no entry found on Diomede’s musters). He served in Bucephalus until 27 August 1813, having been advanced to Ordinary Seaman on 16 September 1811. He then transferred to Severn until he was discharged from the service on 5 October 1813. He reappears in 1830 when he volunteered to serve as Cook in the Messenger packet from 29 May until 7 June 1830 and was then ‘discharged on shore’. He next entered Mastiff on 4 April 1836, a Volunteer from Woolwich, aged 40, and served as an Able Seaman until discharged on 12 May 1836 to Perseus, from which ship he was discharged from the service on 7 September 1836 per Admiralty Order.

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