Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Navarino, Syria (William Harris.) light edge bruising and nicks, otherwise very fine £1,000-£1,400

Glendining’s, October 1922 and April 1964.

114 medals issued with these two clasps.

William Harris is confirmed as a Private, Royal Marines, serving aboard H.M.S. Cambrian at Navarino and aboard H.M.S. Revenge at Syria. Ten other men of this name are shown on the rolls for various clasps.

William Harris was born in the Parish of Trinity, Exeter city, Devon, and attested for the R.M.L.I. on 13 January 1824, aged 15, a cabinet maker by trade. He entered H.M.S. Cambrian as a Private 3rd Class while serving with the 23rd Company, Portsmouth Division, on 30 June 1826.

Sold with copied Muster roll and R.M.L.I. Description Book entries.