Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Five: Sergeant G. Johnson, Royal Marine Light Infantry

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (Pte., H.M.S. Phoebe); 1914 Star, with clasp (PO.13199 Sergt., R.M. Brigade); British War and Victory Medals (Sgt., R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Sergt., R.M.L.I.) together with three R.M. Rifle Association prize medals, Active Service Cup, Bulford, April 1909, small bronze medal; Coburg Cup 1912 (Lce. Sgt.), large bronze medal; Royal Marines Eight 1912, silver, these all cased, the first very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £250-300

George Johnson was born at Gillingham, Kent, on 25 November 1875, and enlisted for the Royal Marines at Gosport on 9 January 1894. He served aboard H.M.S. Phoebe and landed with the Naval Brigade during the Benin Expedition, 6th-24th February 1897, with the Sapola Column. He was invalided at Cape Station, reason not given, on 15 June 1897 and returned home the following month. During the Great War he served with the Royal Marine Brigade and was taken prisoner at the defence of Antwerp in October 1914. He was interned for the duration of the war in Holland and was repatriated in November 1918, arriving at Hull on the 18th of that month. Sergeant Johnson appears in the group photograph published in The Globe and Laurel in 1918 entitled “Prisoners of War Interned in Holland”. Sold with copy service record.