Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Philip Barker) good very fine £1800-2000

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

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Ex Glendining, April 1949, and Sotheby, November 1979.

Philip Barker served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Theseus at Basque Roads. He had joined Theseus on 10 June 1806 as a Landsman, was promoted to Ordinary Seaman on 21 March 1809, and continued in that ship until 21 December 1813, when he removed to the Raisonnable, in which ship he remained until 1 June 1814.