Orders, Decorations and Medals

Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, the reverse neatly engraved in running script ‘John Cork, Vanguard’, gilding contemporary though not original, nearly very fine £600-800

John Cork is confirmed as Carpenter’s Crew aboard Nelson’s flagship H.M.S. Vanguard at the battle of the Nile. He was born at Bradfield, Norfolk, circa 1775, being aged 23 years when in Vanguard at the time of the battle of the Nile. He was afterwards discharged to the Royal William on 7 February 1800.