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Sold on 18 May 2011

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The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection

Brigadier W.E. Strong, C St J

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№ 205

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,200

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (Richd. Cobby) edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and rare
£1600-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Richard Cobby, who was born at Eastbourne, Sussex, was an ‘impressed ex-smuggler’ serving as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Asia at Navarino.

Sold with further research, including a copy of the O.M.R.S. Miscellany of Honours (1981) with an article by the late Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, R.N., which confirms Cobby as one of the seven N.G.S. medal recipients for Navarino who had served as ‘impressed ex-smugglers‘.