Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman F. J. Ellis, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (F. J. Ellis, A.B., H.M.S. Terpsichore.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (F. J. Ellis, A.B., H.M.S. Terpsichore.) mounted for display, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £500-£700

45 clasps for Jubaland issued to H.M.S. Terpsichore.

Francis John Ellis was born at Hythe, Hampshire, on 13 April 1879, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 18 May 1894; Boy 1st Class, 25 April 1895; Ordinary Seaman, 13 April 1897; Able Seaman, 24 October 1899; Leading Seaman, 18 August 1904. He served aboard H.M.S. Terpsichore from 17 February 1901 until 25 April 1904, seeing service in South Africa and in Jubaland. He was invalided out with a tubercle of lung on 4 June 1908.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll entry for Jubaland clasp.