Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 23 June 1795, Camperdown (Thomas Simpson.) light contact marks to obverse, otherwise good very fine £1,600-£2,000

Provenance: Lee Bishop Collection, Spink, July 2009.

Thomas Simpson is confirmed on the rolls as a Landsman aboard the gun-boat Teaser on 14 March 1795, and in the same rate aboard H.M.S. Adamant at the battle of Camperdown. He was the only man to claim the first clasp from Teaser. Two other men of this name appear on the rolls, one for Camperdown and one for Basque Roads 1809.