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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 310

Three: Stoker Petty Officer W. Jarrett, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (303150 W. Jarrett, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (303150 W. Jarrett, S.P.O., R.N.), a little polished, nearly very fine or better (3)


William Jarrett was born in Lancaster on 15 October 1883 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in February 1903. A Leading Stoker aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Cumberland on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he remained likewise employed until coming ashore in October 1916. The Cumberland was ordered to West Africa where she supported operations in the Cameroons in September 1914 and captured 10 German merchantmen at Douala on the 17th. Jarrett came ashore at the end of 1916 but would return to sea in the period January 1917 to the war's end. He was pensioned ashore as a Stoker Petty Officer in the summer of 1922; sold with copied service record.

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