Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant J. G. Raymond, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Midshipman); Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (Lieut., Transport Service) engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, named as before, very fine (3) £600-700

James Grant Raymond entered the Navy on 27 May 1812, and served as Midshipman on board the Loire during the war with the United States. He was employed as a Volunteer in the rocket-boat belonging to the Superb at the bombardment of Algiers, 27 August, 1816. He passed his examination in 1821, and obtained his commission in March 1828, whereafter he was employed on the Coast Blockade in Hyperion; with the Coast Guard service, March 1829; in command of the revenue cruiser Lapwing, May 1833, and of the Greyhound, October 1834; with the Coast Guard, June 1836; as Agent on contract mail vessels, September 1837; and in command of the steam packet Medusa, July 1844 to 1848. He returned to active service during the Crimean War in the Naval Transport Service.