The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
At the end of the year 1810, Cadiz was blockaded by land by the
French, who made vigorous preparations for a siege, and collected a
flotilla of gun-boats to co-operate by sea. A British squadron under
the command of Rear Admiral Sir E. Keats lay off the place, and with
gun-boats and bomb vessels very much annoyed the enemy, and
hindered the construction of their works. On November 23rd the
HMS Devastation, HMS Thunder, and HMS Etna, bombs, with a
number of English and Spanish mortar and gun-boats, under the
orders of Captain Hall, attacked the French flotilla at Port St. Mary,
and threw some hundred shells among them with considerable effect.
Being exposed to the fire of Fort Catalina, Lieutenants Worth, and
Buckland, of the Royal Marine Artillery, and a midshipman were
killed, and four English and four Spanish seamen wounded in this
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It was for his actions here that Lt. Rooke was awarded the Naval Service Medal
with the clasp for Nov 23 rd 1810, a representation of which appears on his
memorial. Strangely this award does not appear to have been noted in the
Gazette.
Fig. 39 Naval Service Medal with clasp for Boat Service, *.
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