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Vessel: HMS Centaur
Recipient: Lieut. William Walker (RM)
Type: £30
Action: Destruction of batteries on Martinique

(26th November, 1803)

Award Date: 14th February, 1804
Inscription: From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Lieut William Walker of the Royal Marines for his Gallant Conduct on the Destruction of a Battery of the Enemy in Petit Ance D'Arlette Martinique the 26th Novr 1803, Recorded in the London Gazette of the 28th January 1804


Location: Royal Marines Museum Southsea, 2/4
References: illustrated in JAAS Patriotic Fund Swords by Leslie Southwick Sept 1987; illustrated in Naval Swords by P.G.W. Annis; illustrated in A Patriotic Fund Presentation Sword by J.P.Puype

 

 

 


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