Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Algiers, Syria (Thos. Wood.) light contact marks and suspension a little slack, otherwise very fine £1,600-£2,000

‘Jubilee’ Collection, Glendining’s, May 1992.

Thomas Wood is confirmed on the Admiralty rolls as a Landsman in Hecla at Algiers, and as an Able Seaman in Princess Charlotte for the Syrian operations. Despite a 10-year age discrepancy for this man in the muster lists of the two ships, the same Claim No. Q36 against each clasp would indicate that the clerks had satisfied themselves that this discrepancy was a simple error. One other man of this name is shown on the roll for Syria.

Hecla was a Bomb of ten guns launched in July 1815 and was later used for Arctic discovery voyages between 1819 and 1827.

Sold with further research.