Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (A. Courtney, Asst. Surgn.) good very fine £1,000-£1,200

Confirmed on the Admiralty roll as Assistant Surgeon aboard the Mutine at the battle of Algiers.

Abraham Courtney was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 6 April 1812, and served aboard Minerva on convoy duties to the West Indies and Bermuda from May 1812 until at least November 1814. He was appointed to Mutine, per warrant of 3 January 1816, and joined her on 31 January 1816. Present at the battle of Algiers, he was discharged from Mutine on 8 April 1817. He was appointed to Cherub in August 1817, serving on the coast of Africa, and to Larne in July 1819, followed by Aid, a surveying sloop in the Mediterranean, in April 1820. In the period 1821 to mid-826 he served successively in Surinam, Sybille, Isis, and Beaver on the Jamaica station, having been appointed as Acting Surgeon in the latter vessel on 18 January 1825 and confirmed in that rank on 9 May 1825. He was Surgeon in Infernal in the Mediterranean, December 1827 to at least March 1830; in Talavera, stationed in the Downs, until May 1831; and in Curacoa in the East Indies until late in 1832. After this he does not seem to have served at sea again. In June 1839 he is shown as being ‘unfit for active service at sea’, and continued to be shown thus until December 1854. It seems likely that he died in the early part of the following year.