Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman Robert F. Pennington, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve

1914-15 Star (138420 R. Pennington. A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (138420 R. Pennington. A.B. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (138420 (CH.B. 556) R. Pennington. A.B. R.F.R.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., coinage head (Robert Freeman Pennington) mounted as worn, together with metal identity disc, nearly extremely fine (5) £50-£60

I.S.M. London Gazette 23 April 1929: Postman, Birmingham.

Robert (Freeman) Pennington was born on 21 November 1870, at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and joined the Royal Navy on 31 August 1886, a foundry boy by trade. He was invalided out in March 1893, cause unknown, and a subsequent entry states ‘Not Allowed to Re-enter.’ However, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Chatham on 22 February 1902, re-enrolled in in July 1906 for a further period of 5 years, and enrolled once more in May 1911 to serve until February 1917. He was recalled for active service in 1914 and served aboard the battleship Magnificent until the end of January 1915, when he entered Pembroke 1 at Chatham, and thereafter to Tyne in Cromarty Firth, before returning to Pembroke 1 in April 1917, where he remained until he was invalided out on 20 June 1917. Sold with copied record of service.