Description
1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-45 War Medal, Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, GVI, Army Meritorious Service Medal, GVI, Warrant Officer John Jabez Merritt, Royal Artillery, who first enlisted in 1921.
Swing mounted as worn on old ribbons circa 1950s.
WW2 medals unnamed as issued.
LSGC officially impressed: “1949407 W.O. Cl. II. J.J. Merritt. R.A.”
MSM officially impressed: “1949407 W.O. Cl. I. J.J. Merritt. R.A.”
John Jabez Merritt was born during early 1904 in Shoreditch, London.
The son of London family, Jabez and Emily Merritt, grew up in Mile End Old Town.
He first joined the army on 3rd February 1921, aged 18 at Whitehall, London, having worked as a Smiths Mate.
He would go on to serve a long career in the Royal Artillery.
Earned his LSGC in Army Order 193 dated 1940.
During World War 2, the 1945 Army List shows him as a War Substantive Sergeant Major, Assistant Instructor in Gunnery, with seniority date 20th June 1940.
he was finally discharged on 19th January 1948 to the Z reserve, and is noted as an “O/A” Old Age Pensioner circa 1953 in the R.A. enlistment books.
He later died in 1a Kemble Street, London WC2 during 1965.
