Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gaieta 24 July 1815 (Jas. Handcock.) toned, about good very fine £1,800-£2,200

Glendining’s, December 1965; Sotheby, March 1984.

James Handcock is confirmed of the roll as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Berwick at the reduction of Gaieta in 1815, for which approximately 88 clasps were issued.