Pair: Fleet Surgeon N. Littleton, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Nicholas Littleton, Surgn., “Bittern”); Baltic 1854-55 (Nicholas Littleton, Surgn., “Rosamond”) contemporary engraved naming, slight edge bruising, good very fine (2) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, B.D.W. 16 October 1996.

The Bittern was during this same Commission later engaged on many anti-piracy patrols off Hong Kong. The published despatches make stirring reading, in which the names of some seamen and marines are specifically mentioned for gallantry. The lists of Bittern’s men wounded by the pirates, who would have been tended by Surgeon Littleton, include names, rates and the ‘hurt’ incurred (See London Gazette 1865, p 105). Littleton was Surgeon of the paddle-wheel steam sloop Rosamond in the Baltic and retired as Fleet Surgeon in April 1874. With copied research.