Baltic medal, battle of Bomarsund 1854

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Named Baltic medal (with interesting replacement suspender) commission document to Captain the Honorable Ernest Grey Lambton Cochrane Royal Navy, 
Born to Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, and Katherine Corbett Frances Cochrane on the 4 June 1834, his father was a British naval flag officer of the Royal Navy, mercenary, and Radical politician. He was a successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mer’s, 'the Sea Wolf'. 
In 1847 he entered Royal Navy and served on board the ships Victory, Hibernian, and Trafalgar
In 1854 Participated in the Battle of Bomarsund, in August 1854, which took place during the Åland War, (part of the Crimean War) as part of the Anglo-French expeditionary force attacked a Russian fortress. It was the only major action of the war to take place at Bomarsund in the Baltic Sea. 
He was part of the initial land reconnaissance of the fort and his reports enabled him to be appointed Aide de Camp to Brigadier General Jones, the fort was captured and Cochrane was part of the surrender delegation, he was later mentioned in dispatches. 
Aug. 29, 1854, made lieutenant of the Edinburgh and in 1856 Served as lieutenant-commander of HMS Chub, West Africa Station Freetown, Sierra Leone
In September 1864 he married Adelaide Blackwall, daughter of Samuel W. Blackwall, Governor of Sierra Leone, she died a month later
In October 1866 he married Elizabeth Frances Maria Katherine Doherty, only child of Richard Doherty of Redcastle
Between 1868 to 1870 he was Commander of HMS Petrel off the Cape of Good Hope and West coast of Africa Participated in the suppression of the slave trade
In 1873 he retired as Captain RN
He was appointed in 1879 High Sheriff of County Donegal
He died at his Redcastle estate, Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland on February 1911