Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 879

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£75

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (G. S. Jenkinson, Sergt., No.1601 Ch: R.M.L.I.), impressed naming, very fine £50-70

George Stephen Jenkinson 6 February 1861 in Weststockworth, Lincolnshire. A Clerk by trade, he entered the Royal Marines in October 1879. He was awarded the L.S.& G.C. Medal on 13 November 1889 and attained the rank of Colour Sergeant in 1891. He was discharged through length of service in October 1900 but re-employed in May 1903 and remained so until his final discharge in February 1916. His service papers record under ‘Wounds and Hurts’ entries dated 16 March 1899, ‘Recruiting, Chatham’ and 25 September 1899 ‘To duty’. It is also recorded that he was paid a War Gratuity on 10 July 1919. Sold with copied record service sheets.