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, ); 1914-15 Star (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

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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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.