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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 125

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (G.J. Gibbon, Volr.), very fine

George J. Gibbon served as Volunteer in H.M.S. Asia during the Battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France, and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827.

George J. Gibbon acquired the rank of Second-Master, August 1832; served as Acting-Master in H.M.S. Alert (Captain C.J. Bosanquet), on the coast of Africa, from August 1843; the following year served in H.M.S. Collingwood (flagship of Sir George Seymour) on the Pacific station; appointed Master whilst serving in H.M.S. Modeste, on the same station; employed by the Coast Guard from June 1850, ´at first St. Alban´s Head, and then at Cornhill - next, to the Imaum receiving-ship Jamaica, whence he returned in July, 1856 - and 10 Aug., 1857, to the Contract Mail service as Admiralty Agent.´ (O´Byrne refers).

Provenance:
Glendining, January 1931

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£900