M0016312: Certificate relating to the injuries received by Frederick Blight, 1801

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/146/75
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M0016312: Certificate relating to the injuries received by Frederick Blight, 1801. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Certificate relating to the injuries received by F. Blight.

Description

Certificate relating to the injuries received by Frederick Blight, Able Seaman: loss of sight from ophtalmia, while his ship, The Thistle, was employed in Egypt.. Part of a set of certificates addressed to the Directors of the Chatham Chest (from 1803 the Chest at Greenwich), a fund for the relief of men hurt or wounded in naval service, concerning disabilities and wounds of various seamen.

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.5994

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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