Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The group of thirteen miniature dress medals attributed to Rear-Admiral Sir Rowland C. Jerram, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) Knight Commander’s 2nd type badges, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice’s badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, the miniatures all loose, having previously been mounted court-style for display in a glazed display case, good very fine (13) £120-£160

K.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945.

D.S.O. London Gazette 22 January 1920:
‘For distinguished service on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.’

Sir Rowland Christopher Jerram entered the Royal Navy in 1907 and served during the Great War on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet in H.M. Ships Iron Duke, Lion, and Queen Elizabeth. He served during the inter-War years as Secretary to Admirals of the Fleet, and subsequently the during the Second World War in H.M.S. Cleopatra, and then on Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Staff. He retired in 1945.