Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Major T. L. Fennel, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Cheshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (Major, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), these three late issues; Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1917, with top bar, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-180

Theodore Llewellyn Fennell was born in 1874. He qualified as a Medical Practitioner, gaining a M.B. and Ch.B. at Manchester University in 1901. He was employed as a House Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Assistant Medical Officer at the Manchester Workhouse Infirmary. Fennell became a member of the 3rd V.B. Cheshire Regiment in 1898. With the onset of war, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Major with the 5th V.B. Cheshire Regiment on 15 February 1915. He was invalided to England in May 1915 suffering from Chronic Dysentery. Recovering sufficiently in England, he applied for a transfer to the R.A.M.C., there better to use his medical skills. He was re-commissioned a Major in the R.A.M.C. in May 1916. He returned to France in February 1918 and served there and with the Army of Occupation until June 1921, his last unit being the 142nd Field Ambulance. Latterly living at Hatfield House, Chilham, near Canterbury, he was Medical Officer for East Ashford. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c., the latter indicating that the recipient’s Great War medals were issued in 1929.