Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Domingo (Richard Hawes.) extremely fine £2400-2800

Provenance: Glendining’s June 1904; Spink, July 1995.

Richard Hawes is confirmed on the rolls as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Donegal at the battle of St Domingo on 6 February 1806. He was born in London, circa 1779, and joined Donegal as a Landsman on 30 November 1802, aged 23. Sold with copied muster roll entry.