Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Lloyd’s Trafalgar Patriotic Fund Casualty Certificate.
450mm x 350mm and housed in an old very good quality gilt frame. The Certificate inscribed ‘Lloyd’s February 18, 1806 Sir, I am directed by the Committee to inform you, that at a General Meeting held this day, they voted you the Sum of Five pounds, as a testimony of their sense of the Loss you sustained by the Death of your Son the late Ralph Forster, Marine, of his Majesty’s Ship Royal Sovereign, killed in action with the Combined Fleets off Cape Trafalgar on the 21st of October last. I am, Sir, Your humble Servant. Mr. Peter Forster, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire’. Fold marks, otherwise very good condition £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Trafalgar and Waterloo relics.

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H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, commanded by Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, 100 guns, led the lee column into the Battle, and was the first to come under fire from no fewer than 7 enemy warships, resulting in her casualty list of 141: 47 killed, including Forster, and 94 wounded, only 3 British ships suffering more. After the Battle she was taken in tow by H.M.S. Euryalus, Collingwood having shifted his flag to the latter.