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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 5

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, Java, Algiers, Navarino (William Bray.), contact mark to obverse profile, good very fine

Provenance:

Sotheby's, May 1910.
Glendining's, June 1942.
Hayward, October 1971.
Baldwin's, November 2001.

William Bray served as a Boy aboard H.M.S. Illustrious, 74 guns during the capture of Java in July 1811, and as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Albion, 74 guns at the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. At the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827, he was Captain of the Mast aboard Admiral Sir Edward Codrington's flagship H.M.S. Asia, 84 guns. Asia was the first ship of the Allied combined fleet to enter Navarino harbour following the Ottoman refusal to withdraw troops from Morea. The Ottoman ships were deployed in a defensive crescent; Asia bore the brunt of the enemy fire as she advanced, initially unsupported. For the loss of 177 killed and 480 wounded, the Allied fleet sank or disabled 65 Ottoman ships and put paid to the Sultan's plans for re-conquering Greece.

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£1900