Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant George Cleaveland, Royal Navy, who served as Mate aboard H.M.S. Princess Royal in the varioue operations of the Syrian campaign

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (George Cleaveland.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine £800-£1,000

George Cleaveland was born on 9 September 1818, and is nephew of Captain Sir Robert Oliver, R.N., K.H. This officer entered the Navy on 25 June 1832, as First-Class Volunteer, on board the Dee steam-vessel, commanded by his uncle, Captain Robert Oliver, in the North Sea; became Midshipman, 27 June 1834, of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in the Mediterranean; and, until July, 1841, continued to serve, on the latter station, on board the Medea steamer, Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, Malabar 74, Captain Sir William Augustus Montagu, and, the last three years as Mate, on board the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Sir Robert Stopford, under whom he shared, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, in the various operations of the Syrian campaign. He then joined, at Portsmouth, the Queen 110, fitting for the flag of Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen; and, on 7 February 1842, obtained his commission. His appointments have since been – 18 March 1842, to the Styx steam-vessel, Captain Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal, employed in surveying the Azores – 8 February 1843, and 28 March 1844, to the Tartarus and Hecate steam surveying-vessels, commanded on the coast of Ireland by Captains Frederick Bullock and James Paterson Bower – and, 4 March 1845, to the Hibernia 104, now flag-ship of Sir William Parker in the Mediterranean. He died on 8 January 1855, at Bromley, Kent, aged 36.