Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Banda Neira, Java (John Davis), suspension refixed, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £1000-1200

The published rolls confirm John Davis as a Yeoman of the Sheets / Trumpeter aboard H.M.S. Caroline for both actions, one of just 19 recipients of this clasp combination and one of only 68 men recorded on the Admiralty roll for the capture of the Island of Neira in the Banda Group, Moluccas, in August 1810; seven men, among others with the same names, were awarded the Medal for Syria.