Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 27th November 2024

Lot 5

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

Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £945

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Description

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



(36mm diameter)

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.