Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ten: Able Seaman A. V. Jackson, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, Boy 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, A.B., R.N.); Coronation 1937; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, A.B., H.M.S. Pembroke), mounted as worn in this order, the Great War awards with contact marks and polished, thus fine, the remainder generally very fine or better (10) £160-180

Albert Victor Jackson was born in London in June 1899 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1915. His subsequent wartime seagoing appointments were in H.M. Monitor Lord Clive, from July 1915 to December 1917, and in the destroyer Forward, from July 1918 until the end of April 1919.

The Lord Clive participated in numerous bombardments against enemy batteries on the Belgian coast, including Zeebrugge and Ostend - taking four hits in quick succession while attacking the latter port on 7 September 1915. And of particular interest relevant to Jackson’s time in the destroyer Forward was the occasion his ship assisted in the evacuation of Odessa in early April 1919, when she rescued, among others, the Countess Helen Tolstoy, wife of Count Dimitry Tolstoy, the Director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg - she was conveyed to Malta with two of her children and a British nurse, Miss Simmonds. Husband and wife were later reunited and settled in France.

Jackson was still serving in the 1930s and received his Coronation Medal in 1937 aboard the royal yacht Victoria & Albert (T.N.A. ADM 171/69 refers); sold with copied service record.