Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Reserve Wardmaster J. Stephenson, Royal Navy Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and St. John of Jerusalem, late Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (595 Ordly: J. Stephenson. St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (595. Pte J. Stephenson Colne Div.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M.9531 J. Stephenson. R. Wdmr. R.N.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (633. J. Stephenson, Res: Wardmaster. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, silver (1st. Off: John Stephenson (Colne Div: S.J.A.B.) 1914.) contact marks to the Boer War medals, nearly very fine and better (5) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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John Stephenson was born in Colne, Lancashire, on 17 June 1877. A former Orderly during the Boer War, he served from 5 August 1914 to 14 April 1919 as Reserve Wardmaster at Chatham Hospital in Kent.