Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Chief Gunner J. Dennis, Royal Navy, decorated for the battle of Jutland and killed in the internal explosion of the Vanguard in July 1917

1914-15 Star (Gnr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Gnr., R.N.); Russia, Medal of the Order of St Anne, gold and enamel, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-800

Chief Gunner James Dennis was killed in the internal explosion that occurred in H.M.S. Vanguard at Scapa Flow on 9 July 1917. He had previously been decorated by the Russian Government for ‘distinguished services rendered in the Battle of Jutland’, when Gunner on the Vanguard.