Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Thos. Lane.) attractive toning, better than very fine £400-£500

J. B. Hayward, October 1974.

Thomas Lane served as a Private in the Royal Marines during operations aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon off the coast of Syria in November 1840. One other man with this name appears on the Admiralty Claimant’s Roll, a single clasp award for Navarino to an Able Seaman, H.M.S. Asia.