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Pair: Sergeant James Murphy, Royal Marines
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (James Murphy.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (Jas. Murphy. Sergeant Portsmouth Division Royal Marines 34 Years) fitted with contemporary hinged-bar suspension, the first with re-fixed suspension and onetime brooch mounted to obverse, otherwise about very fine (2) £2000-2500
Ex R. J. Byatt Collection, Spink, July 2000.
Sergeant James Murphy served aboard H.M.S. Valiant at Basque Roads and was awarded the Naval L.S. & G.C. on 4 December 1837.
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