Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Guadaloupe, Ap & May Boat Service 1813 (John Jones.) small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,200-£1,600

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

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John Jones is confirmed on the rolls as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Statira at the capture of Guadaloupe, and as an Able Seaman aboard the same ship at the destruction of battery, stores and vessels at Frenchtown, and cannon foundry and battery at Havre de Grace, up the Elk river, Chesapeake Bay in April and May, 1813. Numerous other men of this name are shown on the rolls for a wide variety of actions.