Six: Leading Seaman C. H. Jarman, Royal Navy, who was recommended for promotion for his part in the action at Illig in 1904

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (C. H. Jarman, Ord., H.M.S. Aurora); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (C. H. Jarman, A.B., H.M.S. Hyacinth); 1914-15 Star (194497 C. H. Jarman, L.S. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (194497 C. H. Jarman, L.S. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (194497 (Dev. B. 1495) C. H. Jarman, L.S. R.F.R.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (6) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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258 medals issued with Relief of Pekin clasp to this ship. Medal presented by the King on 8 March 1902.

Charles Henry Jarman was born at Froxfield, Hampshire on 20 August 1879, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Curacoa on 10 July 1897. First witnessing active service as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Aurora during the Boxer Rebellion, when he was present in the relief of Pekin operations, he went on to see further action with H.M.S. Hyacinth during the Somaliland operations of 1902-04, when, in the latter year, he was present in the mixed naval and military force, British and Italian, which captured the Dervish stronghold of Illig, services that resulted in a recommendation for his advancement to Leading Seaman (his service record refers). And he came ashore in that rate in April 1906, when he transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Mobilised on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, his subsequent seagoing appointments were in the battleship Caesar, from August 1915 to January 1918, and in the cruiser Cornwall, from June to September 1918. He was demobilised on 19 September 1919. Sold with copied service record and medal roll entries.