Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal H. Jeynes, Durham Light Infantry, late Gloucestershire Regiment

1914-15 Star (1474 Pte H. Jeynes. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1474 Cpl. H. Jeynes. Durh. L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal G.V.R. (252361 Cpl. H. Jeynes. 5/Durh:L.I.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., first issue (Henry C. Jeynes), together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B255890’, stain to reverse of VM, very fine and better (5) £160-200

Henry Charles Jeynes was born in Tewkesbury in 1892. He attested for the 5th (Territorial) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment on 26 June 1911 and was embodied in August 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915 and returned home on 13 November 1915. He later transferred to the Durham Light Infantry and returned to France on 6 May 1918. He was severely wounded by gas poisoning in 1918 and returned home on 28 August 1918. He was discharged on 23 February 1919.

Sold together with the recipient’s I.D. bracelet, ‘H. Jeynes 1474 C of E 5 Glos’; Borough of Tewkesbury Scroll 1914-1919, signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk, in postal card tube, firstly addressed to ‘H. Jeynes, Allesley House Gardens, Allesley’ corrected to ‘The Gardens, Bage Lot Park, Surrey’; and a gilt metal framed silk panel depicting the badge of the Gloucestershire Regiment.