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Vessel: HMS Boadicea
Recipient: Lieut. Thomas Robert Pye (RM)
Type: £50
Action: Attack on Island of Bourbon

(21st September, 1809)

Award Date: 21st January, 1813
Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Lieut. Tho. Robt Pye of the Marines of H.M.S. Boadecea Severely Wounded in a Gallant Attack on the Enemy at St. Pauls in the Isle of Bourbon on the 21st of Septr 1809


Location: Private collection (UK)
References: illustrated in World Swords by H Withers pp243-245; illustrated in Trafalgar Swords of Honour by Derek Spalding p262 (Source Peter Dale)

 

 

 


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