Overview

The Naval General Service Medal 1793–1840 was authorised in 1847 and issued in 1849 to surviving veterans as a retrospective award mainly (but not exclusively) for naval actions at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The medal was always awarded with one or more clasps, and a total of 232 different clasps were authorised, the earliest clasp being for the capture of the French frigate La Cléopatre by H.M.S. Nymphe on 18 June 1793, and the last clasp being for the bombardment of Syria (3 November 1840). The greatest number of clasps awarded to a single recipient was 7.

Our online roll lists all 17,430 recipients.

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