Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (John Jennings) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine
£800-1000

John Jennings was born in Northumberland. He enlisted into the Royal Marines at Canterbury on 21 July 1809, aged 18 years for a bounty of 16 guineas. As a Private in the Royal Marines he served aboard H.M.S. Impregnable at the battle of Algiers, 27 August 1816.

With copied enlistment papers and research concerning the battle. Two men with this name in the published N.G.S. roll.