Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Download Images

Lot

№ 1053

.

23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£7,500

The rare N.G.S. and M.G.S. pair to Private James Bull, 57th Foot, late Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (James Bull); Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Busaco, Vittoria, Pyrenees (James Bull, 57th Foot) toned, good very fine (2) £4000-5000

Ex Whitaker collection (Glendining, July 1956).

James Bull served as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S.
Spencer at the Gut of Gibraltar in July 1801. He enlisted into the 2nd Battalion of the 57th Foot on 1 February 1803 and was discharged on 13 November 1813, in consequence of ‘loss of sight contracted in Spain in 1812 and in America in 1814’.