Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 December 2008

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1218

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Four: Sergeant S. J. Jennings, Parachute Regiment

General Service 1962
, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland, naming erased; South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24246657 Pte., Para,); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP ribbon; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Regular Army (24246657 Cpl., Para.), mounted court-style as worn, generally good very fine and better (4) £1200-1500

Sean Joseph Jennings served in 3 Para in the Falklands, where, in common with fellow Battalion members, he landed at San Carlos on 21 May 1982, participated in two night marches covering a distance of 40 miles, and then went into action on Mount Longdon on 11-12 June, when the Battalion lost 20 men killed and another 40 wounded. Sergeant Ian McKay, of course, won a posthumous V.C. on the same occasion. Jennings appears to have been discharged in the rank of Sergeant in 1995.