NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL WITH EGYPT & BASQUE ROADS CLASPS TO CARPENTER JOSEPH ANDERSON

Jospeph Anderson served as Carpenter aboard H.M.S. Gibraltar at Egypt and Basque Roads, also confirmed as being present on board the Blanche at the time of her action on 19 Dec 1796, when, in company with the Minerve under Commodore Horatio Nelson, each frigate captured a Spanish frigate but were forced to relinquish their prizes on the appearance of a superior Spanish force.

Anderson should, therefore, have been entitled to the additional clasp ‘Blanche 19 Decr 1796’ (only 4 issued) but as he was about 80 years old when he claimed his medal, perhaps he was unaware of entitlement.

Accompanied by an article on this medal from the O.M.R.S. Journal, Vol. 23, Summer 1984, outlining this.

Provenance: Ex-Cheylesmore Collection, ex-Glendining’s, July 1930.