Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Copenhagen 1801, Trafalgar (William Reed.) good very fine £3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic-Era Campaign Medals.

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Hayward, December 1970; Christie’s, November 1985; Fred Rockwood Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 2014.

William Reed is confirmed as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Defiance at Copenhagen and as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon at Trafalgar. Two other men of this name are shown on the rolls, both for Syria.