The published Naval General Service Medals rolls confirm William Willson as a Boy aboard the Stately for the action of 22.3.1808, one of just 31 recipients of this clasp recorded on the Admiralty roll. One man, however, with the same names, was entitled to a single 'Syria' clasp.

For the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa on the East Coast of Jutland on 22.3.1808.