The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Private G. E. F. Henneman, 1st Cadet Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Sergeant, Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill 9501 Pte. E. G. [sic] Henneman, C.I.V.); 1914 Star, with clasp (27820 Sapr: G. E. F. Henneman. R.E.; British War and Victory Medals (27820 Sjt. G. E. F. Kenneman [sic]. R.E.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (George Ernest Frederick Henneman) mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £280-£320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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George Ernest Frederick Henneman was born in Islington, London in February 1882. Initially a brass rule maker by occupation, he enlisted into the 1st Cadet Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1897 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in the Infantry Battalion. He is listed clearly as Ernest Henneman in the 1901 census, partially explaining the initials on his Q.S.A.

In 1911 Henneman was a sorter at Islington General Post Office and later, following the outbreak of the Great War, he attested for the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, serving with them in France from 4 October 1914. He was awarded his Imperial Service medal in 1943 on his retirement as an Overseer with the London Postal Region (London Gazette 9 April 1943), and died in Kent in 1966.