A Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840 to Private William Butt, Royal Marines, clasp: Navarino

A Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840 to Private William Butt, Royal Marines, clasp: Navarino (WILLIAM BUTT.), good very fine.

William Butt was born in the Parish of Ingatestone in Essex and worked as a labourer before attesting for the Chatham Division, Royal Marines, at Chelmsford on the 4th December 1820, aged 18 years. He was discharged as a Corporal, with unblemished character, in December 1842, having served at the Battle of Navarino in H.M.S. Philomel.