Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, St. Vincent, Nile, Egypt (John Grant.) suspension slack, carriage bent between first two clasps, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise better than good fine £2,000-£2,600

Provenance: Sotheby, June 1983.

John Grant was a ‘quota-man’ who joined H.M.S. Culloden as a Landsman on 7 May 1795, from H.M.S. Royal William. He was advanced direct from Landsman to Able Seaman on 1 October 1796, and served in this rate as Gunner’s crew at St Vincent and the Nile. On 11 August 1800, he was drafted from Culloden to H.M.S. Pique and aboard her saw action off the coast of Egypt, which qualified him in March 1850 to seek this belated clasp. As a widower, aged 71 years, he became an ‘In-Pensioner’ at Greenwich Hospital on 16 August 1839, and died there on 7 October 1850. One other man of this name is shown on the roll for Syria. Sold with copied muster lists, death certificate and research notes by Captain Douglas-Morris.