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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 73

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Wm. P. Haydon, Lieut. R.N.), very fine Estimate £ 4,000-4,500 William P. Haydon served as Master´s Mate in H.M.S. Neptune (flag ship of Rear-Admiral A.I. Cochrane) as part of the combined naval and military assault and capture of the French-held island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, 24.2.1809; Haydon served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Guadaloupe for the combined naval and military operations commanded by Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane and Lieutenant General Sir George Beckwith which culminated in the capture of the French-held Island of Guadaloupe, January-February 1810. Lieutenant William Phippard Haydon, joined the Royal Navy as Master´s Mate, April 1803; he initially served in H.M.S. Winchelsea before removing to H.M.S. Romney (Captains W. Brown and the Hon. J. Colville), August 1803; under Colville ´on his return from a voyage to the coast of Africa, he was wrecked, in a fog, on the Haaks, near the Texel, 19 Nov. 1804. He was then received on board the Vestal... and after participating, during the summer of 1805, in many warm engagements with the enemy´s flotilla and batteries near Calais, he accompanied that officer [Captain S.T. Digby] into the Argo, and again sailed for the African station´ (O´Byrne refers); after service with Cochrane in the Belleisle and the Neptune, the latter for the fall of Martinique, he was nominated by Cochrane as Acting-Lieutenant of the Alcmène frigate (Captain W. Maude), 29.6.1809; appointed Lieutenant H.M.S. Guadaloupe (Captain M. Head), December 1809; after a period of brief service in H.M.S. Hibernia, he was appointed to the Centaur (Captain J.C. White), November 1810, ´in the latter ship Mr. Haydon, after serving for some time with the inshore squadron off Toulon, co-operated in the defence of Taragona, and, in April, 1814, witnessed the destruction, up the Gironde, of a French line of battle ship, three brigs of war , several smaller vessels, and of all the ports and batteries on the north side of the river.´ (Ibid). Provenance: Spink Medal Circular June 1999

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