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Lot Essay
Ex Spink, 1959.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm John Burgoyne as a Boy 3rd Class aboard the Stately for the action of 22.3.1808, one of just 31 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll.
For the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa on the East Coast of Jutland on 22.3.1808.
John Burgoyne joined the Ship's Company of the Stately as a Boy 3rd Class on 3.3.1808, aged 12 years, just three weeks before the above action - a terrifying enough ordeal for an experienced Rating, let alone a mere boy. Burgoyne remained in the Stately until being discharged ashore in November 1812. Latterly advanced to Boy 2nd Class, he would not have been entitled to a pension.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm John Burgoyne as a Boy 3rd Class aboard the Stately for the action of 22.3.1808, one of just 31 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll.
For the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa on the East Coast of Jutland on 22.3.1808.
John Burgoyne joined the Ship's Company of the Stately as a Boy 3rd Class on 3.3.1808, aged 12 years, just three weeks before the above action - a terrifying enough ordeal for an experienced Rating, let alone a mere boy. Burgoyne remained in the Stately until being discharged ashore in November 1812. Latterly advanced to Boy 2nd Class, he would not have been entitled to a pension.