Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, 4 Novr 1805, Java, St. Sebastian (Henry Jeffery.) light edge bruise and old repair to left hand side of carriage, otherwise nearly extremely fine £3,400-£3,800

Provenance: Glendining’s, December 1901; Sotheby, June 1971; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard Revolutionaire for Strachan’s action on 4th November 1805, and in the same rate aboard the President at the capture of Java and in the operations at St Sebastian. One of two medals issued with this combination of clasps.

Henry Jeffery was born at Torrington, Devon, in 1782, and joined the Revolutionaire at Plymouth on 1 December 1804, as an Able Seaman, aged 22. Sold with various copied muster lists and ships’ log entries.