Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Thomas Atwell.) edge bruising, good very fine £600-£800

Glendining’s, December 1988.

Thomas Atwell (also recorded as Attwell) served as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Powerful during the operations on and off the coast of Syria in 1840.

One other man of this name appears on the Admiralty Claimants’ List: a 2-clasp award for a Private in the Royal Marines for Trafalgar and Lissa.

Sold with a portrait photograph believed to be of the recipient taken in Hong Kong.