A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman
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A good Boxer Rebellion, Somaliland and Great War campaign service group of six awarded to Leading Seaman C. H.
Jarman, Royal Fleet Reserve, late Royal Navy, who, having received his China Medal from the hands of the King in
1902, was recommended for promotion for his part in the action at Illig in 1904
CHINA 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (C. H. Jarman, Ord., H.M.S. Aurora); AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp,
Somaliland 1902-04 (C. H. Jarman, A.B., H.M.S. Hyacinth, ); 1914-15STAR (194497 C. H. Jarman, L.S., R.N.); BRITISH WAR
AND VICTORY MEDALS (194497 C. H. Jarman, L.S., R.N.); ROYAL FLEET RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (194497 (Dev. B.
1495) C. H. Jarman, L.S., R.F.R.), contact marks and occasional edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (6) £600-800
Charles Henry Jarman was born at Froxfield, Hampshire in August 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in July 1897.
First witnessing active service as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Aurora during the Boxer Rebellion, when he was present in the relief of
Pekin operations, he went on to see further action with H.M.S. Hyacinth during the Somaliland operations of 1902-04, when, in the
latter year, he was present in the mixed naval and military force, British and Italian, which captured the Dervish stronghold of Illig,
services that resulted in a recommendation for his advancement to Leading Seaman (his service record refers). And he came ashore in
that rate in April 1906, when he transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve.
Mobilised on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, his subsequent seagoing appointments were in the battleship Caesar (August
1915 to January 1918), and in the cruiser Cornwall (June to September 1918), and he was demobilised in September 1919; sold with
copied service record and medal roll entries.
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A rare Murmansk 1919 M.S.M. group of six awarded to Victualling Chief Petty Officer G. T. A. Gourd, Royal Navy
AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (343393 G. T. A. Gourd, Sh. Std., H.M.S. Philomel); 1914
-15 STAR (343393 G. T. A. Gourd, S.S., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (343393 G. T. A. Gourd, V.C.P.O., R.N.);
ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (343393 G. T. A. Gourd, Sh. Std., H.M.S. Albemarle); ROYAL NAVY MERITORIOUS
SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (343393 G. T. A. Gourd, Vict. C.P.O., “Glory”, Murmansk), surname officially corrected
on the fifth, contact marks, generally very fine or better (6) £600-700
Ex Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, R.N., collection, sold in these rooms on 16 October 1996 (Lot 485).
George Thomas Alfred Gourd was born in Landport, Hampshire in November 1880 and entered the Royal Navy as a Ship Steward’s
Assistant in May 1900. Advanced to Ship’s Steward in September 1906, he served in H.M.S. Philomel from January 1908 until July
1909, in which ship he qualified for his Africa General Service Medal for the Somaliland operations.
Gourd was serving in the same rate aboard the battleship Albemarle on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, in which ship he was
awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1915, before removing to a shore appointment in Portsmouth in September 1916. A few months
later he reported to the Dover base Attentive II and thence returned to Portsmouth in early 1917 as a newly advanced Victualling Chief
Petty Officer.
In August 1918, he joined the Glory, the ex-Russian cruiser Askold, which had been seized in the same month, and which was
subsequently used as a depot ship in the White Sea and Kola inlet. And it was for his services in this capacity that he was awarded the
M.S.M. (London Gazette 12 December 1919, refers), the original recommendation stating:
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