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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 828

Six: Captain A. J. Jeanes, Natal Telegraph Corps

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (L.Sgt: A. J. Jeanes, Natal Telegraph. Corps.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. A. J. Jeanes S.A.F.T. & P.O.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. J. Jeanes.); Coronation 1911 (Sergt. A. J. Jeanes, Natal Tel. Corps.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Capt: A. J. Jeanes U.R. Officers.), edge wear and contact marks to first, good fine, otherwise nearly very fine and better (6)

Arthur John Jeanes was born on 14 June 1880 and worked as a clerk at Pietermaritzburg before serving with the Newcastle Town Guard during the Anglo-Boer War. Appointed Trooper with the Natal Telegraph Corps on 14 October 1903, he was promoted Sergeant on 1 June 1905, Warrant Officer on 30 March 1908 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 October 1911. According to his service record, Jeanes was present at the arrest of Dinuzulu in 1907, the eldest son of the last King of an independent Zululand, Cetshwayo, being implicated in the previous year's Bambata Rebellion and charged with treason.

On 15 February 1915, Jeanes was promoted Captain in the S.A. Field Post and Telegraph Corps. He was seconded to Headquarters of the 3rd South African Infantry Brigade as Brigade Signalling Officer on 26 January 1916, and appointed Officer Commanding, 2nd Division, Divisional Signalling Section, East Africa, in April 1916, being 'mentioned' (London Gazette 30 June 1916, refers). A little over a year later, Jeanes was granted an indefinite leave of absence to proceed to Europe for military service, being made a temporary Captain in the Royal Engineers from 25 January 1918. He subsequently served in France and Flanders with the B.E.F. and American Expeditionary Force from 1 April 1918-18 May 1919, before relinquishing his temporary Imperial Commission on 13 July 1919.

Transferred to the Union Reserve of Officers on 11 May 1920, Jeanes returned home to 22 Lathom Road, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg; sold with copied service papers and group photographs, with extensive correspondence regarding the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. & G.C. Medal.


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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£140