Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer H. Kenyon, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (H. Kenyon, A.B., H.M.S. Wallaroo.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (176509 H. Kenyon, Lg. Sean., H.M.S. Philomel:); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (176509. H. Kenyon, P.O. H.M.S. Philomel.) very fine (3) £380-£420

Harry Kenyon was born at Eastbourne, Sussex, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 30 October 1893. He was shore demobilised on 15 December 1919. Sold with copied medal roll extracts and m.i.c. which shows entitlement to the 1914-15 Star trio. Also copied service papers which show that he did not get the Naval L.S. & G.C. medal, despite a request for an ‘Alteration of Character’ which was refused.