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Nine: Captain S. V. Jephson, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star;...
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Nine: Captain S. V. Jephson, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence & War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, 3rd class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with neck cravat in its Spink & Son case of issue, the first seven mounted as worn, the Legion of Honour with some enamel chips, otherwise some light contact marks, good very fine or better (9) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000. Polonia Restituta London Gazette 22 December 1942: Captain (D) Greenock. For services to the Polish Navy. Legion of Honour, date of London Gazette not found but confirmed in Seedies Roll ‘for services to FNFL Battle of the Atlantic.’ Selwyn Victor Jephson was born on 24 May 1900, and joined the Navy in May 1913 at the R.N. Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. Appointed Midshipman on 15 July 1916, and served aboard H.M.S. Lion for the duration of the war, becoming Sub-Lieutenant in January 1919; Lieutenant, June 1920; Commander, June 1934; Captain, June 1941; retired, 7 July 1950. During the Second War Jephson had command of the destroyer H.M.S. Mackay from 5 July 1942 to 15 November 1943, apart from temporary command of H.M.S. Southdown during August and September 1942. From November 1943 he held various staff appointments at the shore bases Nile and Alexandria. He was appointed Naval A.D.C. to the King, January to July, 1950. Sold with companion mounted set of nine miniature medals, various ribbon bars, and a silver cigarette case, hallmarked 1913, inscribed ‘S.V.J. from W.V.J. May 24. 1918’, and ‘R.N.C. Osborne, R.N.C. Dartmouth, H.M.S. Lion, H.M.S. Ursula, H.M.S. Woolfhound’.
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Nine: Captain S. V. Jephson, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence & War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, 3rd class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with neck cravat in its Spink & Son case of issue, the first seven mounted as worn, the Legion of Honour with some enamel chips, otherwise some light contact marks, good very fine or better (9) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000. Polonia Restituta London Gazette 22 December 1942: Captain (D) Greenock. For services to the Polish Navy. Legion of Honour, date of London Gazette not found but confirmed in Seedies Roll ‘for services to FNFL Battle of the Atlantic.’ Selwyn Victor Jephson was born on 24 May 1900, and joined the Navy in May 1913 at the R.N. Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. Appointed Midshipman on 15 July 1916, and served aboard H.M.S. Lion for the duration of the war, becoming Sub-Lieutenant in January 1919; Lieutenant, June 1920; Commander, June 1934; Captain, June 1941; retired, 7 July 1950. During the Second War Jephson had command of the destroyer H.M.S. Mackay from 5 July 1942 to 15 November 1943, apart from temporary command of H.M.S. Southdown during August and September 1942. From November 1943 he held various staff appointments at the shore bases Nile and Alexandria. He was appointed Naval A.D.C. to the King, January to July, 1950. Sold with companion mounted set of nine miniature medals, various ribbon bars, and a silver cigarette case, hallmarked 1913, inscribed ‘S.V.J. from W.V.J. May 24. 1918’, and ‘R.N.C. Osborne, R.N.C. Dartmouth, H.M.S. Lion, H.M.S. Ursula, H.M.S. Woolfhound’.
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