Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Leading Seaman J. Anniss, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (208160 A.B., H.M.S. Fox); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (208160 A.B., H.M.S. Fox) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £180-220

John Anniss was born in Aghada, Co. Cork on 21 April 1884. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on Black Prince on 13 January 1900. He was advanced to Boy 1st Class when on Impregnable in September 1900, Ordinary Seaman in April 1902 when on Magnificent and Able Seaman in 1904 when on Montague. Anniss served on H.M.S. Fox during May 1908-February 1910 and May-July 1910 for which his service was rewarded with medals for Somaliland and the Persian Gulf. During the Great War he served on Albatross, July 1914-December 1915, Napier, January-September 1916, Faulknor, September 1916-June 1917 and Wolf, July 1917-May 1918, attaining the rank of Leading Seaman in September 1916. Anniss was pensioned ashore on 16 June 1924 but re-entered the service on 15 April 1936 as an Able Seaman (Pensioner) with the Rosyth Royal Dockyard Police. With copied service papers.