Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Wm. Maunder) nearly extremely fine £750-£950

Confirmed on the rolls as Carpenter’s Crew aboard H.M.S. Hydra. Another man of this name received a medal for Navarino as a Private Royal Marines aboard H.M.S. Genoa.

William Maunder was probably born in King Street, Devonport (St Mary le Bone, London, is given in one Muster List) in about 1809, and joined his first ship, Revenge, at Plymouth as a volunteer and Landsman on 10 April 1831. He joined Portland as an Able Seaman on 31 May 1834, and Hydra as Carpenter’s Crew on 13 February 1839. On 14 October 1839 he was rated Ordinary Seaman but reverted to Carpenter’s Crew on 2 June 1841, continuing in Hydra until 1 April 1842. During this period Hydra was operating in the Mediterranean and, in particular, off the ‘Coast of Syria’ and in adjacent bays from mid-September 1840 to early January 1841. After a month at Malta in May 1841 Hydra sailed to Port Royal, Jamaica, where, in December 1841, Maunder was discharged to Hospital and remained there ‘sick’ until April 1842, when he was ‘invalided’ to Comus. He was discharged from Comus to St Vincent, the depot ship at Portsmouth, on 11 May 1842, as an ‘invalid, awaiting payment’, and was paid off from St Vincent, and probably the Navy, on 17 May 1842.

Sold with copied Record of Service and a detailed resume of his service compiled from various sources.