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Description: | Obverse: Bust of Vice-Admiral Viscount Nelson with pigtail, in uniform and ribbon and star of the Bath (left). Legend: 'HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON. K.B. DUKE OF BRONTE. &.' Reverse: General view of the battle. Legend: 'ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY'. Exergue: 'TRAFALGAR. OCTR. 21. 1805'. Inscription incuse: 'John Peart, Africa'. The medal is enclosed in a 'watch' glass case fitted with a loop and ring. John Peart appears on the ship's muster books of HMS 'Africa' as a pressed man aged 27 from Portsmouth in Hampshire.
Article by David Vice 'Medal News' May, 1997 pp. 20-22.
caption: Boulton's Trafalgar Medal, obverse
caption: Boulton's Trafalgar Medal, reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Trafalgar Boulton's Trafalgar Medal Horatio Nelson Peart campaign medals Nelson's great battles John | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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