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Auction: 1025 - The Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793 - 1840
Lot: 9

Alexander Davison´s Medal for the Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, neatly engraved in the reverse field ´Wm. Hilsdon, Theseus´, later gilding, nearly extremely fine, contained in a silver rimmed hinged glazed case with small loop for suspension Estimate £ 500-600 A John Hilsdon served in H.M.S. Theseus at the time of the battle of the Nile; he was born Kensington, London, and entered the latter as Ordinary Seaman, 16.8.1797.

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