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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 209

Three: Warrant Engineer J. E. Lewis, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (E.A.1610. J. E. Lewis. E.R.A.1, R.N.R.): British War and Victory Medals (Wt. Eng. J. E. Lewis. R.N.R.), good very fine (3)

Jenkin Elias Lewis was born on 24 July 1875 at Merthyr Tydful, a merchant seaman who by 1911 was working as a Mechanical Engineer at the local colliery. Upon the outbreak of the Great War, Lewis joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 29 December 1914 and was promoted to Warrant Engineer by the conclusion of hostilities. He died in Anglesey in 1972.

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£70

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£60