Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer J. H. Dennison, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin River 1894 (A.B., H.M.S. Alecto); 1914-15 Star (125055 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (125055 P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Firequeen) the third officially re-impressed, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (5) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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Joseph Henry Dennison was born in Portsea, Hampshire in October 1867 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1883. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in October 1885 and to Able Seaman in July of the following year, he joined H.M.S. Alecto in March 1894, and served in the Naval Brigade drawn from her crew, and other ships, in the Benin River operations of that year. Dennison gained further advancement to Leading Seaman in October 1895 and to Petty Officer 1st Class in June 1896, and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1905, the year in which he was pensioned ashore. Having enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve, he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, and, with the exception of time in the cruiser Terrible between September 1915 and January 1916, appears to have served ashore at Victory I.