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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 689

(x) Pair: Warrant Officer Class I L. W. Jenner, Royal Army Pay Corps, decorated for bravery in the face of the enemy

Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd type (1263 S.Sjt. L. W. Jenner. R.A.P.C.), swivelling scroll suspension; Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (1263 S.Sjt: L. W. Jenner. A.P.C.), swivelling scroll suspension, very fine (2)

M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918.

[French Medal of Honour with silver swords] London Gazette 1 June 1920.

Leo Winchester Jenner was born at Chorlton, Lancashire on 21 August 1883. He served as a Sergeant with the Army Pay Corps during the Great War, arriving in France on 15 August 1914. Attached to 1st Echelon, General Headquarters, he earned the Meritorious Service Medal and was promoted to Staff Sergeant. Mentioned in dispatches (London Gazette, 10 July 1919), he also received the French Medal of Honour with silver swords, which is only conferred for brave deeds in the face of the enemy. This award is extremely rare to the British Army; Jenner's group, if complete, would probably be unique to the Army Pay Corps. Jenner appears on a Warrant Officer Class 1 pension list from 29 August 1927. In 1930 he became a G.W.R. shareholder at a bank in Lewes. Later appointed a Clerk at the War Office (London Gazette, 23 March 1935), he died soon afterwards at Barton, Lancashire in 1937, aged 53; sold with copied MIC, MSM card, roll confirmation and census records.

Recipient also entitled to a 1914 Star with clasp (scarce to the A.P.C.) and British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. emblem, in addition to a French Medaille d'Honneur avec glaives en Argent.



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£190

Starting price
£170