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9 Clasp Military General Service to Stephen Wilson 71st

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October 4, 2015 at 2:38 pm #12933

j.m.martin
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I have been offered a 9 clasp Military General Service medal awarded to Stephen Wilson of the 71st Foot for sale. DNW medal

rolls match the 9 clasps on the offered medal, however thier provenance indicates Regimental Museum. I have emailed the HLI

Museum twice but no reply. Can anyone provide information regarding Stephen Wilson’s 9 clasp MGS medal?

Thanks for any information provided?

Cheers, Jerry

October 7, 2015 at 1:25 am #17577

geoff reeves
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Hi Jerry,

The DNW roll is the Foster roll, I believe. The Mullen roll doesn’t mention the museum at all – it just mentions that’ it’s ex the Murray collection and that Wilson appears on the Waterloo roll. A quick search of the updated extant list doesn’t show that his Waterloo has appeared on the market to date. The DNW website also mentions that his WO97 papers weren’t found – which means there won’t be a lot of biographical information about him.

So, I’m afraid I can’t really answer much for you – just give you a bit more information…
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The only information appearing to be available for this unclaimed clasp can be found in the London Gazette issue of 1849, where the approved NGS clasps were published:

Boats of ‘Fawn’ under Lieut. Morgan. Action with cutter and schooner ‘Guadaloupe’, and capture.

A search of the Navy List from 1793-1815 reveals a total of 18 commissioned officers with the surname of Morgan. Of these, 9 have a Lieutenant’s commission date after 25 July 1809 or died before that date and can be ruled out. Of the remaining, three died between 1817-22 before receiving a promotion and must also be ruled out. Out of the remaining six, four have entries in either Marshall’s or O’Byrne’s Naval Biographies, two with service records, but these two do not mention anything about the action, which would be highly unlikely if it resulted in the man’s promotion. This leaves four potential candidates, one being promoted as late as 1827, he is probably not the man. The remaining three were promoted to Commander between 1814-16, and could all have been the man in charge. Unfortunately, all died between 1817-43, and it’s not likely much biographical information on either of them can be found.


Name	Lieut	Cmd	Died
MORGAN, John Fortescue	15 Sep 1806	12 Oct 1814	9 Dec 1843
MORGAN, Thomas	10 May 1809	16 Nov 1814	Apr 1843
MORGAN, Charles	15 Jun 1781	1 Jan 1816	1817
MORGAN, James (1)	2 Sep 1783	25 Apr 1827	1835

One would have to search the muster books for HMS Fawn to identify who the Lieutenant was.