Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gaieta 24 July 1815 (Wm. Dalmahoy.) nearly extremely fine £2600-3000

Provenance: Glendining, December 1912; Christie’s, July 1985; Glendining, June 1991; Turl Collection of Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840, Spink, July 2010.

Confirmed on the Admiralty roll as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S Berwick at the attack and reduction of Gaieta, in the Kingdom of Naples, on 24 July 1815.

William Dalmahoy was born at [King’s] Lynn, Norfolk, in about 1782. He entered the Navy in 1804, and the certificate of service compiled in 1843 to support his application as a ‘Candidate for Pensioner to Greenwich Hospital’ lists his service as an Ordinary Seaman in the following ships: Veteran, 13 June 1804 to 10 October 1808; Venus, 11 October 1808 to 13 February 1815; and Berwick, 14 February 1815 to 9 July 1816 paid off. He was admitted as an In-Pensioner to Greenwich Hospital on 8 July 1843, aged 61, and died there on 5 September 1849.

Sold with copied extracts from ship’s musters, certificate of service and death certificate.