Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (T. J. K. Tanner, A.B., H.M.S. Harrier) good very fine
£100-150

153 ‘Somaliland 1902-04’ clasps to H.M.S. Harrier.

Thomas John Keynton Tanner was born in Bidock, Cornwall on 24 March 1881. A Market Gardener by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 17 August 1897 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in May 1898. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman on Nile in March 1899 and Able Seaman on Renown in August 1901. He served on Harrier, November 1901-April 1904. He served as an Able Seaman on the battlecruiser Tiger throughout the Great War - seeing action at the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland. Awarded the Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. in May 1914. Entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio.

With copied service paper.