Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Four: Acting Sergeant J. Lennard, Royal Marine Artillery, who was twice wounded in operations ashore in 1914, prior to returning to the Field with the R.M.A. Howitzer Brigade

1914 Star, with clasp (R.M.A. 7108 Gunner, R.M. Brigade); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 7108 Act. Sgt., R.M.A.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S., G.V.R., 1st issue (R.M.A. 7108 (B. 558) Gr., R.F.R.) generally very fine (4) £120-150

John Lennard, who is believed to have been Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the Royal Marines, was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in July 1879 and entered the Royal Marine Artillery as a Private in July 1897. Employed at H.M.S. Tamar, the Hong Kong depot ship, between October 1899 and February 1902, he was discharged to the Royal Fleet Reserve in July 1905.

Mobilised in August 1914, Lennard was wounded in the Ostend operations of the 27th-31st of the same month; served at the defence of Antwerp between 7-18 October 1914, and was again wounded in the same period. His service record also confirms that he served with the R.M.A. Howitzer Brigade out in France and Flanders between February 1915 and August 1918, and that he was advanced to Acting Sergeant in the Field in January of the latter year. Demobilised in March 1919, he was awarded his Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. Medal in February 1922. Sold with a photocopied picture of draymen of Whitbread & Co. Ltd. in the 1920s, including the recipient wearing his awards.