Lot Archive

Lot

№ 458

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£3,700

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 1 June 1794 (Alex. Ellis, Midshipman) minor edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine £3000-3500

Alexander Ellis is confirmed as Midshipman aboard the Leviathan on the Glorious First of June 1794. He does not appear to have passed for Lieutenant and was the only officer amongst the seventeen surviving claimants from this ship.