Orders, Decorations and Medals

Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, white metal, inscribed in the reverse field (Felix Bengman, H.M.S. Revenge) contained in contemporary silver frame with glass lunettes and fitted with fob suspension, nearly extremely fine and very rare £1200-1500

Felix ‘Bengamin’ survived to claim the Naval General Service Medal for Trafalgar, at which battle he served as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Revenge. The Revenge was heavily engaged at Trafalgar when, interlocked in combat with the French Aigle, she received a tremendous fire into her lee quarter from the Spanish Principe de Asturias, and was further hemmed in by three two-deckers, the whole combining to punish her cruelly until they were driven off by the approach of other British vessels. Her injuries in the battle were in consequence severe and her losses heavy, the latter amounting to twenty-eight killed and fifty-one wounded, including her captain, Robert Moorsom, who subsequently carried the Great Banner at Nelson’s funeral.