Auction Catalogue

29 March 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 129

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£180

A rare ‘home service casualty’ B.W.M. to Acting Company Quarter Master Sergeant O. A. Jenner, Central Ontario Regiment, who was killed at Shorncliffe Camp, Kent during a German air raid

British War Medal (273124 A.C.Q.M. Sjt., C.O.R.) extremely fine £80-120

Acting Company Quarter Master Sergeant Oron Alfred Jenner a native of Toronto, Canada was killed on 25 May 1917 at Shorncliffe army camp, Kent; the result of a daylight bombing raid made by 21 German Gotha aeroplanes. He is buried at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent. Sold with confirmation of sole entitlement to B.W.M. and detailed research, including 10 pages of copied service papers and a report giving details of the German bombing raid of 25 May 1917.