Lot 3
Royal Marine At Navarino
"Behind The Wire" - Medal and Militaria Sale | M25001
Auction: 17 September 2025 at 14:00 BST
Description
Naval General Service Medal awarded to Private James Jones, Royal Marines, H.M.S. Cambrian, comprising, Naval General Service Medal, 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino, (James Jones.), lightly toned very fine (1)
The Battle of Navarino, 20 October 1827
Following the Treaty of London in 1827, the signatories - Britain, France, and Russia - were committed to enforcing peace in the Greek archipelago, where Greek patriots were attempting to throw off Ottoman rule. Greece agreed to an armistice but Turkey did not. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, the British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, prevented the Turks supplying their troops in Greece and closely watched the Turco-Egyptian fleet in the Bay of Navarino (Pylos) on the west coast of the Peloponnese.
On 14 October 1827, Cambrian, still under Captain Hamilton, joined the allied fleet just outside the Bay of Navarino. On the 20th, she entered the bay with the rest of the fleet, where she took part in the Battle of Navarino. Cambrian's casualties were light; she had one crew member killed and one wounded
James Jones was born in Kerry, Montgomeryshire about 1796. He attested at Shrewsbury on the 1st of September 1820 in the Plymouth Division 39th Company and was discharged as a Sergeant on the 18th of November 1842.
Sold with Research information
Only 89 Other Ranks Navarino Clasps to Cambrian
Provenance
Glendening’s 1914
Warwick & Warwick 2007
