SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
134
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Geo. Cocksedge,
Midshipman) very fine £6000-8000
George Cocksedge served as a Midshipman aboard the Polyphemus at the battle
of Trafalgar. A third-rate she fought in the Lee column at Trafalgar, losing six
killed and wounded.
She engaged the French 84, Neptune, and the Achille 74, only quitting the latter
when she saw a Union Jack being waved from the French ship’s starboard
cathead. After the battle, and during the gale that followed, she performed good
service in regaining possession of the Spanish 80, Argonauta, which she
delivered over to Lord Collingwood at Cadiz. She afterwards took in tow the
Victory, with the body of Nelson on board, and conducted her to the mouth of
the Straits of Gibraltar.
George Edward Cocksedge was born in Suffolk and entered the Navy on 14 November 1798, as First Class Volunteer, on board the
Impetueux 78, Captain Sampson Edwards, in which ship, and the St George 98, commanded by the same officer, he served, on the
Channel and Mediterranean stations until February 1801. During the next four years he successively joined, as Midshipman, the San
Joseph 110, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, Lapwing 28, Captain Edward Rotheram, and Plantagenet 74, Captains Graham Eden
Hamond and Hon. Michael De Courcy; and while in the latter vessel, besides convoying a fleet of Indiamen to St Helena, assisted in
capturing, 27 July 1803, L’Atalante corvette of 22 guns. On subsequently removing to the Polyphemus 64, Captain Robert Redmill,
flag-ship afterwards of Rear-Admiral George Murray, he further bore a part in the battle fought of Cape Trafalgar on 21 October 1805,
and witnessed in July 1807, the unsuccessful attack made on Buenos Ayres by Lieutenant-General Whitelock. Between 1809, in which
year he obtained a commission and 1813, he next served in the West Indies, North America, and German Ocean, nearly the whole
time as First Lieutenant, on board the Shark sloop, Dispatch 18, Franchise 36, Gorgon ‘armée en flute’, Calliope 20, and Cretan brig.
Lieutenant Cocksedge was placed on half-pay in 1813 and onto the Reserved List in 1851. He received the Naval Medal with one
Clasp and died in 1860.
135
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Mark
Delaney) minor contact marks, very fine £1400-1800
Ex Glendining’s, December 1902.
Mark Delaney served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Gibraltar in the
action in the Basque Roads, 11/12 April 1809.
136
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Thos. Nichols) edge
bruising, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200
Thomas Nichols served as a Private in the Royal Marines aboard H.M.S. Mutine
in the bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1916.
Note: two others with this name in the published medal rolls.
137
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 14 March 1795, St. Vincent
(John Cameron) minor edge bruising and contact marks, good very fine
£4000-5000
Ex McKenzie 1873; Cheylesmore, July 1930 (115/-).
Able Seaman John Cameron served aboard H.M.S. Captain in the action against
the French fleet off Genoa, 14 March 1795, and in the same ship against the
Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797. Nelson, present
in both actions, was Commodore aboard the Captain in the latter battle and
personally led one of the boarding parties that captured first the San Nicolas and
then the San Josef.
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