Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (Alexr. Davis.) good very fine £1,200-£1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840.

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Provenance: Sotheby, February 1912; Glendining’s, March 1988.

Alexander Davis, a unique name on the rolls, is confirmed as Yeoman of the Sheets aboard H.M.S. Scipion.

Alexander Davis was born at Leith entered the Royal Navy on 20 October 1804 aboard H.M.S. Culloden, a volunteer from the Airy Castle East Indiaman. He was promoted to Quarter Gunner on 20 September 1806 and spent nearly five years in Culloden on the East Indies station. He joined Scipion on 15 October 1809 and was present at the reduction of Java in August 1811 when Scipion was flag ship of Rear-Admiral Hon. Robert Stopford. His last ship was Leviathan, which he entered as an Able Seaman on 13 October 1814, promoted to Yeoman of the Sheets the same day. Davis was finally paid off at Portsmouth on 19 July 1816. Sold with comprehensive research including copied ship’s description books and ship’s log of Scipion for the period October 1810 to September 1811.