Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Michael Millard.) nearly extremely fine £6,000-£8,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Ron Wright.

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Provenance: Glendining’s, October 1912; David Spink Collection, December 1985.

Michael Millard is confirmed on the rolls as a Drummer Royal Marines aboard H.M.S. Defiance (Captain Philip Durham) at Trafalgar. He was born in Birmingham and was aged 15 years at the time of the battle. He was admitted to a Naval Out-Pension of £14-12s for life for long service, from 2 Division R.M., on 7 May 1830, at which time his service was stated to be 21 years 5 months. His pension was assigned to the Birmingham District where he died on 6 March 1853, aged 63 (ADM 22/441 refers).

Millard received a Naval Out-Pension for length of service and not for wounds as previously inferred