Great Britain Naval General Service Medal 1848

Obverse - young head profile of Queen Victoria with the legend "VICTORIA REGINA" and the date "1848" Reverse - Britannia holding a trident and an olive branch while riding on a seahorse. The Ribbon is white with blue edges. These were approved in 1847-1848 and the recipient had to be alive 44 years later. Fortunately, the recipient was 17 years old at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar, a a famous battle led by Lord Nelson. Wilcocks served as a Clerk aboard HMS Bellerophon during the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. Out of the roughly 1,600 to 1,700 surviving Trafalgar veterans who lived to claim the medal in 1848, only a tiny handful were Clerks making this medal quite scarce to rare

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