Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

A Great War C.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain H. L. Jackson, Royal Navy, and Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force

The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with replacement suspension ring; 1914-15 Star (Asst. Paymr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Commr., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Greek Order of the Redeemer, 5th class breast badge, silver and enamels, the last with some enamel chips, otherwise very fine and better (10) £300-350

C.B.E. London Gazette 12 July 1920: ‘Squadron Leader Henry Leigh Jackson (Paymaster Lieut.-Commander, Royal Navy). (Omitted in error from the London Gazette of 22nd December, 1919, and to bear that date accordingly.)’ The Gazette of 22 December 1919 announced the final list of awards by the Air Ministry for the Great War.

Order of the Redeemer (Greece) London Gazette 24 May 1919: Payr. Lieut. (Act. Payr. Lieut.-Cdr.) Royal Navy.

Henry Leigh Jackson was born on 7 April 1886, and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in July 1903. He served during the Great War as Paymaster Lieutenant on board the battleship Erin from August 1914 until December 1916, seeing action at the battle of Jutland. On 5 December 1916 he was appointed Secretary to Commodore C. F. Lambert in H.M.S. Southampton, and in the same capacity aboard H.M.S. Birmingham ffrom April 1917, and in H.M.S. Lord Nelson from February 1918, by which time Lambert had become a Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Aegean Squadron, and Jackson a Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander. Throughout the period of his association with Lambert, going back to 1905, that officer consistently spoke of Jackson in the highest possible terms and unsurprisingly chose him as his secretary. From February 1919, Jackson was seconded for service with the Royal Air Force with the rank of Squadron Leader, being rewarded by the Air Ministry with a C.B.E.

Promoted to Paymaster Commander in April 1925, Jackson retired in April 1936 as a Paymaster Captain. Recalled for service during the Second World War, he received a Letter of Praise from the Admiralty for operation ‘Neptune’. Sold with further research.