Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Copenhagen 1801 (Joseph Brown.) dark toned, nearly extremely fine £1,600-£2,000

Glendining’s, July 1912; Sotheby, July 1982; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Joseph Brown is confirmed on the roll as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Alcamene at Copenhagen. Four other men with these names are shown on the roll, two for Syria, and two for Trafalgar (Belleisle and Victory).

The 32-gun frigate Alcmene was active in several theatres of the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary wars, cruising for enemy vessels or privateers and escorting convoys. She fought at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801 as part of Edward Riou’s frigate squadron and suffered 5 men killed and 19 wounded in the battle, including the Captain, Samuel Sutton R.N., who was killed by a sniper’s bullet.