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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 823

Four: Staff Sergeant J. Keen, Army Ordnance Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, Orange Free State (26625 Tpr: J. Keen. 38th Coy. Imp: Yeo:), unofficial rivets between fourth and fifth clasps; 1914-15 Star (02939 Sjt. J. Keen. A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (02939 S. Sjt. J. Keen. A.O.C.), all with original ribands, good very fine (4)

Jabez Keen was born at Bledlow, Buckinghamshire in 1877, the son of Robert Keen. Trained as a wheelwright, he volunteered for the 2nd Boer War, attesting for the 38th (High Wycombe) Company, 10th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry on 18 February 1901. He served in South Africa from 16 March 1901 to 1 August 1902. Discharged on 9 August, he again volunteered his services in the Great War, arriving in France on 3 June 1915 as a Sergeant with the Army Ordnance Corps. He was later promoted to Staff Sergeant. Surviving the conflict, he died in 1947; sold with copied service papers, clasp confirmation and MIC.

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£160

Starting price
£100