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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 126

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Algiers (Geo. B. Bunbury, Midshipman.), nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 1,000-1,200Provenance Glendining, 15.6.1939 George Bunbury served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Minden at the bombardment of Algiers Lieutenant George Benjamin Bunbury entered the Navy 1812 as First Class Volunteer in H.M.S. Dublin; served off Brest, Rochefort and the coast of France and advanced to Midshipman; served in H.M.S. Minden at Algiers, 27 August 1816, and served in the same ship in the East Indies until 1820; in 1823 he joined H.M.S. Swinger and was actively employed off the West Coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade; he took part in the Ashantee War and was frequently in action on the coast and up rivers protecting towns which were well disposed; on one occasion while he was engaged in council with nearly 150 chiefs in the upper part of an old Dutch fort, the flooring gave way and he and the rest were precipitated to the bottom. Owing to this misadventure Mr Bunbury received several bruises and sustained a dislocation of the shoulder, in which condition, nevertheless, being the only person on shore aquainted with the navigation, he was obliged to steer his boat with the injured of his party through a heavy surf back to the ship; Acting-Lieutenant in H.M.S. Victor 1825 he then served in several ships in the Mediterranean and off the West coast of Africa, returning home in 1832; placed on the reserve list 1853, he remained on the Navy list as Retired Commander with seniority dating from 1.7.1864; Lieutenant Bunbury died in 1876.

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