441


A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (G. 21035 Pte. L. Le Venois, Middx. R.), one or two edge bruises, very fine


£40-60


Leon Le Venois was born in Jersey of French parentage in 1896, his father probably being one of the many Breton farm workers who had immigrated to the island. His mother, Marie Rose Auffrett, was born in France in October 1875, and was residing at 7 La Motte Street, St. Helier, at the time of the Great War.


Employed at Messrs. Bashfords before the outbreak of hostilities, Leon enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment in the summer of 1915 and died of wounds while serving in the 13th Battalion on the Somme on 20 August 1916, just six weeks after having arrived in France. A subsequent obituary notice that appeared in the Jersey Evening Post on 6 September stated that his mother had received a letter from the Army Chaplain who attended her son at 21st Casualty Clearing Station, the latter stating that her son had been badly wounded in the head by a piece of shell - ‘He lived some hours and was conscious now and then during which I was able to give him the Last Sacrament, which he received devoutly’. Le Venois is buried in La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie; sold with copied research.


442 BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (38670 Pte. A. H. Barreau, Hamps. R.), good very fine £60-80


Arthur Hamptonne Barreau was born in 1879, the son of Francis, a surgeon, and Adela Barreau of Clarence House, St. Helier, Jersey. Educated at Victoria College, Jersey, he was a talented artist and a member of the Societe Jersiaise, his work for the latter including illustrations of archaeological finds from the excavations at La Cotte de St. Brelade. Of his subsequent service in the Hampshire Regiment little is known, other than the fact he was entitled only to a single British War Medal on account of having been employed in India, though as a Staff Sergeant he went on to witness active service in the Third Afghan War (Medal & clasp). Returning to Jersey shortly afterwards, he died in 1922, leaving £8,000 to his aunt, Emilia Augusta Barreau, who in turn donated the sum to the building of an art gallery at the Museum of the Societe Jersiaise in Pier Road, as a permanent memorial to her nephew. It was opened by then Bailiff, Sir William Venables Vernon, in January 1925; sold with copied research.


443 BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (243270 Pte. G. O. Despres, Hamps. R.), good very fine £40-50


George Owen Despres was born in the parish of St. Ouen, Jersey, in 1891, and originally enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1911, a relatively short-lived career on account of his discharge for intemperance in July 1914. But he rejoined the Colours in the Great War, when he was awarded the British War and Victory Medals for his services in the Hampshire Regiment. Local records also reveal that he re-enlisted in the Royal Militia Island of Jersey in April 1940, shortly before the German occupation, which then became the 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment - his 1940 attestation papers are available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archives; sold with copied research.


444 BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (2) (Philip C. Le Voguer; Reginald Rumsey), very fine and better (2) £40-60


Philip Charles Le Voguer was born at St. Saviour’s, Jersey in April 1881 and served in the Mercantile Marine as a 2nd Mate during the Great War. His Board of Trade records - copies included - reveal that his British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals were sent to him at an address in Goole, Yorkshire in January 1923.


Reginald Rumsey was born in St. Helier, Jersey, in May 1884 and served as a 2nd Mate in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. His Board of Trade records - copies included - also reveal that his British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals were sent to him at an address in Plymouth in May 1921.


445


VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (114704 Gnr. E. Amy, R.A.), mounted as worn, very fine


£60-80


Edward Charles Amy, who was born at St. Saviour’s, Jersey in December 1893, was awarded the M.M. for his gallant deeds at Passchendaele on 29-30 October 1917, while serving as a Bombardier in ‘A’ Battery, 95th Brigade R.F.A., and was one of just 92 Channel Islanders to be similarly decorated in the Great War. The following notice was published in the Jersey Evening Post:‘Bombardier Edward C. Amy of the Royal Field Artillery, a young Jersey man who joined up in October 1915 and who has been in France since September 1916, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the field during the night of 29-30 October, when 25 of a party of 30 gunners were gassed, and it was then left to the remaining five, who included Bombardier Amy, to continue working the guns. This they did quite successfully for upwards of 24 hours, saving a dangerous situation. The enemy at this point had advanced to a position less than 4,000 yards away.’


At the time of the German occupation in 1940, Amy was resident at 2 Highfield Villas, Rue a la Dame, St. Saviour’s, Jersey - a copy of his German I.D. card and photograph is available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archives; sold with copied research, including a portrait photograph in uniform, believed to have been taken from Heroes Fund for Soldiers, a publication established by the Constable of St. Helier to honour the island’s decorated servicemen, and confirmation of his entitlement to the British War Medal 1914-20, in addition to the M.M.


446 VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (193 Pte. F. C. Dienys, R. Grernsey (sic) L.I.), extremely fine £60-80


Francis Charles Dienys was killed in action on the first day of the attack on Nine Wood on 20 November 1917, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, being one of three men who were originally posted as missing (Diex Aix, The Gurnseymen Who Marched Away, 1914-18, by Major Edwin Parks, refers). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval; sold with copied research.


447 VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (M-321408 Pte. O. W. De La Mare, A.S.C.), good very fine £30-40


Owen Winter De La Mare enlisted in the Army Service Corps in Jersey in April 1917, aged 36 years, stating that he had previously served in the Cape Government as a Transport and Revenue Officer. Embarked for Mesopotamia that July, where he was actively employed as a Light Driver in Motor Transport, he was discharged as medically unfit at Fort Regent in Jersey in March 1919, suffering from neurasthenia - better known as a nervous breakdown. By the time of the German occupation, he was living with his wife at 18 Seale Street, St. Helier - a copy of his German I.D. card and photograph is available from the Jersey Heritage Trust Archive; sold with copied service papers.


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