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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J. 82107 W. F. Jager, A.B., H.M.S. Defender) ship’s name officially corrected, contact wear and edge bruising, about very fine £20-30

William Frederick Jager was born in South Shields in March 1900 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class at the training establishment Powerful in December 1917. His first seagoing appointment, between March and May 1918, was in the cruiser Donegal, and afterwards, between June 1918 and the end of hostilities, he served in the Chelmsford. Jager was advanced to Able Seaman in March 1921, soon after attending the submarine depot ships Lucia and Maidstone, but thereafter he appears to have become a destroyer man, with lengthy inter-war appointments in the Vesper and Vanquisher. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1935, while serving in another destroyer, the Defender.