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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 149

China 1840-42 (Henry. T. Laye, Lieut., H.M.S. Endymion.), suspension re-affixed, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine Estimate £ 550-600Lieutenant Henry Thomas Laye, joined as Volunteer 1st Class, Royal Navy, 1823; posted to the Trinculo later that year; Midshipman 1824; served in the Jasper, Jupiter and the Wellesley; served in the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the East Indies (1829-36), as Mate in the Donegal and the Jupiter; Lieutenant 1836; posted to the Stag for service in South America, 1837; served in the Endymion 1840-43; during this period he served in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and China, and was in the Yang-tse-Kiang prior to the pacification of Nanking; commanded a detached force that escaladed the walls of Chin-Kiang-Foo and, owing to the illness of the commanding officer, brought the Rattlesnake down the river.

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