Six: Petty Officer G. H. Jeffery, Royal Navy, a veteran of the Dardanelles and the battle of Jutland

1914-15 Star (224911 G. H. Jeffery, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (224911 G. H. Jeffery, P.O., R.N.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R. (George Herbert Jeffreys); Voluntary Medical Services Medal (George Herbert Jeffreys), together with Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered, ‘RN 40883’, S.J.A.B. Proficiency Cross, bronze-gilt (275929 George H. Jeffreys), with 9 dated bars for the period 1929-1937, B.R.C.S. Proficiency in First Aid Medal, gilt and enamel, with bars dated ‘1943’ and ‘1944’ (05613 G. H. Jeffreys), and B.R.C.S. Service Medal, gilt and enamel, with 2 ‘3 Years Service’ bars, very fine or better (9) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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George Herbert Jeffreys was born in London in December 1886 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1903. A Leading Seaman serving in the battleship H.M.S. Agamemnon at the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he removed to the Cornwallis before the year’s end, in which battleship he served until November 1915, encompassing her commission in the Dardanelles and most probably his ‘Service in Land Operations’, as per an official endorsement on his service record. Back in the U.K., he was advanced to Petty Officer in March 1916, prior to joining the Royal Oak, in which ship he was present at Jutland. Coming ashore in late 1917, his final wartime appointment was in the tender Medusa at Queenstown from January 1918 until the War’s end, and he was invalided from the service in consequence of ‘compound hypermetropia astigmation’ in June 1919; sold with copied service record.