A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders

Pair: Private C. F. Coyen, Machine Gun Corps, late Royal Jersey Militia and Hampshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (108137 Pte. C. F. Coyen, M.G.C.), good very fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders.

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Charles Frances Coyen was born in St. Helier, Jersey, in August 1891, the son of Rene and Victorine Coyen, French nationals who had resided at New Cottage, First Tower Hill, since the mid-1880s. Charles enlisted in the 3rd (South) Battalion, Royal Jersey Militia, in August 1914, was transferred to the Hampshire Regiment and, in April 1917, to the Machine Gun Corps. Discharged on medical grounds - possibly as a result of wounds - in May 1919, he was living with his wife and mother at Beachcot, St. Clement, at the time of the German occupation of Jersey in 1940 - his German I.D. card and photograph are available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archives. He died in 1972; sold with copied research.