Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ward Room O.S. J. May, H.M.S. Britomart) Royal Mint impressed naming, nearly extremely fine and rare to ship £1,000-£1,400

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2012.

One of only 15 Canada General Service Medals awarded to H.M.S. Britomart.

James May was born at Morice Town, in the Parish of Stoke Damerel, Devon, on 1 October 1847, and was a tobacconist by trade. He joined the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Britomart as a Ward Room Officer’s Servant on 25 April 1866. He was discharged on 9 February 1870 for passage on Barracouta to England, where he was paid off, conduct noted as ‘Very Good’. He subsequently served aboard H.M.S. Cadmus as a Domestic 2nd Class from 1 January 1873 until 26 November 1874, when he was discharged to shore and paid off, conduct again noted as ‘V. Good’.

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