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Ernest Martin Jehan DSC (2 February 1878 – 7 December 1929) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Jehan is best known for the sinking of a German submarine by he and his crew aboard the smack ''Inverlyon''. He began the war as a warrant officer and was decorated and commissioned after sinking UB-4. ==Early life and career== Born in Forest, Guernsey on 2 February 1878, Ernest Martin Jehan had worked as a plasterer before joining the Royal Navy on 8 February 1894, when he reached the age of eighteen he signed up for 12 years service initially. At the age of 18, he was described as being with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a "dark" complexion. Jehan's first posting on 4 February 1894 was to the stone frigate HMS ''Impregnable'', then based on the former HMS ''Howe'', where he was rated boy seaman. He was then moved to HMS ''Boscawen'' (on the former HMS ''Trafalgar'') on 22 February 1895, then HMS ''Victory I'' on 10 July 1895 and HMS ''Australia'' on 12 September 1895, where on turning eighteen he was rated ordinary seaman. He briefly returned to ''Victory I'' from 6 February before being posted to HMS ''Fox'' on 14 April 1896. He was rated able seaman on 11 June 1896, when he also began specialist gunnery training.〔 Jehan was posted to HMS ''Duke of Wellington I'' on 8 July 1899, and was rated leading seaman on 28 October 1899. He then transferred to the naval gunnery school HMS ''Excellent'' on Whale Island on 5 December 1899, and then briefly to the torpedo school HMS ''Vernon'' in September 1900, before returning to ''Excellent'' on 25 November . He was posted to HMS ''Duke of Wellington'' on 2 December HMS ''Raven'' on 9 December and back to ''Duke of Wellington I'' on 26 March 1901. He joined HMS ''Eclipse'' on 30 May 1901 and was rated petty officer 2nd class on 14 October. He returned ''Excellent'' 8 April 1903, and was rated petty officer 1st class on 17 June 1904. He briefly went back to ''Vernon'' on 28 June before returning to ''Excellent'' on 10 November. He was posted to HMS ''Sappho'' on 1 December 1904.〔 Jehan was then promoted to acting gunner (a warrant rank) on 11 April 1905. He served as an interpreter during a visit to Portsmouth by the French fleet in August 1905 but failed a preliminary French exam in October that year. His rank was confirmed on 2 April 1906.〔 He was largely employed on training duties in various establishments around Portsmouth until on 11 July 1910, he was appointed to the crew that took the light cruiser to Canada, one of two warships purchased by Canada from the British Admiralty. There he remained aboard the Canadian cruiser at Esquimalt, British Columbia, until ordered back to England in 1913, arriving back on 19 November. On 4 April 1914, just prior to the outbreak of the First World War, Jehan was posted to HMS ''Dryad'', a torpedo boat converted into a minesweeper. From ''Dryad'' he was sent to ''Inverlyon'' as the commanding officer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Martin Jehan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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