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8 Aug 2021: Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: campaigns, before the fall of Guadaloupe, while French traffic was still passing to the island. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin 1927.

8 Aug 2021: France and Britain agreed spheres of influence to be occupied after the Empire's collapse. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This was one of the last pieces acquired for the Watson Collection: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin in 1936. ... They had come by it from an auction at Glendinings in September 1935.

8 Aug 2021: This medal is one of those awarded to the Eurotas's crew, to Ship's Boy John Hampton. ... Clorinde became HMS Aurora. Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1929; it had previously been sold through the London auction house

8 Aug 2021: Increasing competition from the USA and France for Chinese trade concessions, against a background of extreme Chinese reluctance to co-operate with British trading interests after the First Opium War, led ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson from

8 Aug 2021: the British flag only to be lost to the guns of USS Constitution in 1812. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Although endeavours of British forces by land in the late 1790s were less than successful, the Royal Navy rose from strength to strength towards 1800, despite being opposed by the French, ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealers

8 Aug 2021: He fought in the first action from a boat of HMS Cumberland, and in the latter from one of HMS Voluntaire. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink in 1926.

8 Aug 2021: The Medals Roll confirms the award of the piece to him, although on it his name has been officially corrected from the initial engraving of it as Durnford'. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928;