Six: Conductor R. D. B. Fennell, Indian Ordnance Department, late Essex Regiment and East Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5818 Pte., Essex Regt.), single initial ‘R.’; British War and Victory Medals (S.-Condr., I.O.D.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (8530 S. Sjt., I.O.D.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S./Sergt., I.O.D.), mounted as worn, the first with edge bruising and polished, good fine, the remainder generally very fine (6) £300-350

Roland Dewsbury Braden Fennell, who was born in Bermondsey, London in June 1881, enlisted in the Essex Regiment in January 1900, and quickly witnessed active service out in South Africa from August 1901 to August 1902. Advanced to Corporal in June 1906, while stationed in India, he transferred to the East Lancashire Regiment later that year, and was shortly thereafter appointed to the rank of Pioneer Sergeant. Then in May 1911, he transferred to the Indian Unattached List for employment in the Ordnance Department in Madras in the rank of Staff Sergeant, in which capacity he served throughout the Great War period, latterly as a member of the Mesopotamina Expeditionary Force 1918-20, in which period he qualified for his General Service Medal for Iraq and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal (IAO 111 of 1919 refers). Having then been granted extended leave in the U.K., he returned to India in May 1921, was advanced to Sub. Conductor that July and to Conductor in April 1923, and was finally discharged to a pension in January 1926.