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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 74

Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Banda Neira, Java (Andrew Swanson.), lacquered, very fine Estimate £ 3,500-4,000 Andrew Swanson served as Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Caroline at the assault and capture of the strongly fortified Dutch island of Banda Neira, the main island in the Banda group in the Moluccas, by 140 seamen and marines from H.M. Ships Caroline, Piemontaise and Barracouta together with about 40 soldiers of the Madras European Regiment, 9.8.1810. The island declared impregnable by the Dutch, was defended by at least ten sea batteries and was garrisoned by 1500 regular troops and militia. Captain Christopher Cole of the Caroline received a Small Naval Gold Medal for this action; Swanson served as the same rank and in the same vessel as part of the assistance given by the Navy in the capture of the island of Java, from July until its surrender September 1811. Provenance: Christie November 1986 Spink September 2001

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