China, 1842, with original straight bar suspension John Wheeler, H.M.S. Nimrod. Suspender at sometime refitted. EF

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Able Seaman John Wheeler, of Saltash, Cornwall, is listed as having served as A.B. aboard H.M.S. Nimrod during the China War of 1841-42, and having later ‘died onboard at Madras’ with his ‘discharge’ date given as 20 April 1844.