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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 19

x A N.G.S. and China 1842 Pair to Commander J.C.M. Touzeau, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (J.C.M. Touzeau, Midshipman.); China 1842 (J.C.M. Touzean [sic], Lieut. H.M.S. Pylades.), generally good very fine or better (2) Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 James Charles Mann Touzeau served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Genoa for the battle fo Navrarino, when the fleets of Britain, France and Russia combined against the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827. Commander James Charles Mann Touzeau, R.N., born 1806; entered the Royal Navy as 1st Class Volunteer, 1821; appointed as Midshipman H.M.S. Genoa, 1825; was serving in H.M.S. Nightingale (Lieutenant-Commander G. Wood) when she was wrecked off south Yarmouth, 7.2.1829; Lieutenant 1837; served with H.M.S. Pylades on the China Station, and was engaged with her boats in action with three piratical junks of greatly superior force, 29.7.1840; one of the junks was captured whilst the other two escaped - British casualties were 2 men killed and 7 wounded, with the Chinese suffering about 50 killed; Touzeau ´´also took an active part in the operations against Canton; and on that city being ransomed he was sent, on the morning of 26 May 1841, accompanied by a detachment of sepoys and of the 49th Regiment as a guard, with despatches to the troops who were in possession of the heights, communicating the intelligence to them and directing a cessation of hostilities. After assisting at the reduction of Amoy, he was left there for the protection of that and the adjacent islands. On finally quitting the Pylades he was presented with a Commander´´s commission bearing date 23 Dec. 1842´´ (O´´Byrne refers); the commission was in the London Gazette of 1843, p2950. Provenance: Glendining December 1933 Sotheby July 1979

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