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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 83

Naval General Service 1793-1840, three clasps, 14 March 1795, Camperdown, 12 Octr. 1798 (A. McMillan, Midshipman.), pawn broker´s marks to edge at 11 o´clock, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 7,000-8,000 Allan McMillan (listed as ´Allan McMillane´ on Admiralty Claimants´ List ADM 171-2 page 29, ADM 171-1 page 56, and ADM 171-2, page 46 respectively) served as Boy in H.M.S. Bedford as part of Admiral Hotham´s successful action with the French Fleet off Genoa, 14.3.1795, when two ships-of the-line were captured; he was borne as Able Seaman on the same ship´s books for the defeat of the Dutch fleet at Camperdown, 11.10.1797; Two Large Naval Gold Medals and fourteen Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action; McMillan served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Foudroyant for the capture the French 74 gun ship-of-the-line Hoche and three frigates by Commodore Sir John Borlase Warren´s squadron off the north-west coast of Ireland, 12.10.1798. Lieutenant Allan McMillan joined the Royal Navy as a Boy, 25.9.1791; he served in H.M.S. Bedford (Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond) from the latter date until May 1798 (except for an interval between November 1795-January 1797) on the Home and Mediterranean Stations under Captains Robert Mann, Davidge Gould, Augustus Montgomery and Sir Thomas Byard; appointed Midshipman for service in H.M.S. Foudroyant (bearing the successive flags of Lord Nelson and Keith); he served in the latter under Captain Sir Edward Berry at the blockade of Malta, where he assisted at the capture of Le Genereux and the Ville de Marseilles, 18.2.1800; he was also present when the Foudroyant in company with the Lion and the Penelope captured the French flag-ship Guillaume Tell, with Rear Admiral Decres and 1,000 men on board; McMillan saw service with 13 different ships on the Home and Baltic stations between February 1803-31.10.1810, commanding the Convulsion, 1805-06; and accompanying Captain James Boxer in the Skylark on the expedition to Walacheren, 1809; his last appointments were in the Scylla, 1811, and in the Calliope off Flushing, Heligoland, until January 1814. Provenance: Glendining, March 1909 Lieutenant-Commander A.D. McLauchlan, O.B.E., R.N., Collection, Spink, July 2008

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