Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Electrical Artificer Second Class H. B. Jepson, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (M.9985 H. B. Jepson, E.A. 4., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.9985 H. B. Jepson. E.A. 3 R.N.) nearly very fine

Three: Able Seaman C. H. Green, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (211797, C. H. Green, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (211797 C. H. Green. A.B. R.N.) very fine (6) £80-£100

Harry Braunston Jepson was born at Nottingham on 21 December 1888 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrical Artificer Fourth Class in H.M.S. Vernon, on 13 October 1914. He was confirmed in that rate in H.M.S. Blenheim, on 1 January 1916, and was advanced Electrical Artificer Second Class in H.M.S. Danae, on 13 October 1921. He was invalided to shore, from H.M.S. Pembroke II, on 19 May 1926, due to ‘disease of the ears’. He died at Wigston, Leicestershire, in 1977.

Charles Henry Green was born at South Shields, Co. Durham, on 10 November 1884 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 2 October 1900. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Revenge on 10 November 1902, and to Able Seaman, on 9 May 1904. During the Great War he served in H.M.S. Vernon, H.M.S. Victory II, and H.M.S. Barham. He was demobilised in May 1919, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. During his service he was confined to the cells for seven days on several occasions, and on one occasion, in 1909 was sentenced to 42 days hard labour for ‘breaking out’.