The very fine father and son Shipley and District Butcher’s Association Past President’s Jewel’s with the Great War medal to the father, Able Seaman H. Kilner, Tyneside Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal to his son, Constable George W. Kilner, Police Special Constabulary. Both father and son were in the butchers trade, there butchers being located in Shipley, Yorkshire, with the father becoming President of the Shipley and District Butcher’s Association during 1938, and his son of the same in 1963.
British War Medal 1914-1919; (T.Z.10791 H. KILNER. A.B. R.N.V.R.)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine.
Together with the recipient’s Shipley and District Butcher’s Association Past President’s Jewel, silver-gilt and enamels, hallmarks for Birmingham with date letter ‘O’ for 1938, reverse engraved: ‘H. KILNER / 1938 / PRESIDENT’.
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, EIIR Dei.Grat. bust; (GEORGE W. KILNER)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine.
Together with the recipient’s Shipley and District Butcher’s Association Past President’s Jewel, silver-gilt and enamels, hallmarks for Birmingham with date letter ‘N’ for 1962, reverse engraved: ‘G. W. KILNER / 1963 / PRESIDENT’.This housed in its Fattorini and Son case.
Henry Kilner was born on 18 November 1891 in Bingley, Yorkshire, and having worked as a butcher, with the ongoing Great War he then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman (No.T.Z.10791) with the Tyneside Division on being posted to Victory VI from 28 February 1917, being then posted to Vivid III from 21 May 1917, before being posted to the light cruiser Concord from 26 June to 9 August 1917. He was then posted to Pembroke I followed by Vivid III again from 1 October 1917 and President II from 12 February 1918, when he qualified as a Seaman Gunner, being rated as an Able Seaman on 13 May 1918 and demobilised ashore on 14 April 1919. It is unclear if Kilner actually saw any service at sea during this period, Concord having quite possibly not put to sea during the period he was aboard her, and therefore he may well be solely entitled to the British War Medal. After the war he continued with the butchers in Shipley, Yorkshire, and became President of the Shipley and District Butvher’s Association during 1938, after which he received his Past President’s Jewel. As of 1939 he was listed as residing with his wife, Annie, and son George William at 125 Bradford Road in Shipley, he being recorded as a master butcher and shopkeeper.
His son, George William Kilner, was born on 28 November 1920, and also followed his father into the butchers business, and as of 1939 was working as a butchers assistant working under his father. in addition to being a local Constable in the Police Special Constabulary, was, like his father, President of the Shipley and District Butvher’s Association during 1963, after which he received his Past President’s Jewel.
