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Lot 43
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, one clasp, 2 May Boat Service 1813 (James Haley), extremely fine
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GBP 3,680
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Specialist note
Ex Whalley Collection, 1884 and Jubilee Collection, May 1992.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm James Haley as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Repulse for the Boat Service action of 2.5.1813, one of just 48 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll.
For the attack on Morgiou Harbour, near Toulon, in which a party of Royal Marines destroyed the enemy's Battery, and men under Lieutenant Isaac Shaw brought out some laden Merchantmen, the whole being drawn from the Ship's Companies of the Redwing, Repulse, Volontaire and Undaunted.
The published Naval General Service Medal rolls confirm James Haley as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Repulse for the Boat Service action of 2.5.1813, one of just 48 recipients of this clasp on the Admiralty roll.
For the attack on Morgiou Harbour, near Toulon, in which a party of Royal Marines destroyed the enemy's Battery, and men under Lieutenant Isaac Shaw brought out some laden Merchantmen, the whole being drawn from the Ship's Companies of the Redwing, Repulse, Volontaire and Undaunted.