Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Leading Seaman A. E. Jenner, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (A. E. Jenner, Ord., H.M.S. Theseus.); China 1900, no clasp (A. E. Jenner A.B., H.M.S. Daphne.); 1914-15 Star (179976, A. E. Jenner, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (179976 A. E. Jenner. L.S. R.N.) contact marks, nearly very fine or better (5) £400-£500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004.

Albert Edward Jenner was born in Hastings, Sussex, on 1 February 1878, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 June 1894. He served in H.M.S. Theseus during the operations against Chief Overiami at Benin City from 6 February 1897, and was advanced Able Seaman on 1 April 1898. He transferred to H.M.S. Daphne on 1 January 1899, and served in her during the Boxer Rebellion. Shore demobilised, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Chatham on 2 May 1908, but re-enrolled in the Royal Navy on 16 March 1912, and served throughout the Great War. He was finally demobilised on 17 February 1919.

Sold with copied service record.