Lieutenant (Executive Officer) Ernest Martin Jehan, DCM
HMS Sarpedon, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Cross	1914-15 Star

Born on 25/09/1875 at Forest, Guernsey. Son of Daniel Jehan & Betsy Lucas. Husband of Eliza France Wellman.

Retired as Lieutenant Commander. He died in 1929 at Horndean, Hampshire.

 

When in command of Q-Ship HMS Inverlyon he sank the German submarine UB-4 on 15/08/1915.
Jehan became the first and only commander to sink a modern steel submarine with a sailing vessel and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for this.

 

LG: (Supplement) no. 29374. p. 11558 19/11/15

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