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Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A 1916 Montauban/Dantzig Alley Officer
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Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A 1916 Montauban/Dantzig Alley Officer Casualty, 8th Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T. R. Castle, a pre-war poet and associate of the Bloomsbury Group, comprising: 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut T. R. Castle); Memorial Plaque (Tudor Ralph Castle), War Medal lightly toned, Victory Medal as issued, Plaque very fine, housed in velvet mount (2)
To Mrs Castle – Sandy Cross, Seale, Farnham, Surrey. ‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt T.R. Castle West Surreys killed in action – August 31st – The Army Council express their sympathy’
Tudor Ralph Castle was born on 28th December 1882 at ‘Woodlands Villa’, Brentford, London. He was the second son of Eleanor Wilhelmina (Sadleir) and William Henry Castle. The family later moved to Kensington, London
Tudor was admitted to Harrow School in September 1896 and resided in Mr Moss’s House, Church Hill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1901 and graduated with a B.A. Hons in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 1904. As an undergraduate Tudor joined two Trinity poetry societies, the X Society and the Shakespeare Society, serving successively as Secretary and President of the X Society.
Following graduation, Tudor travelled to India, Spain and Germany. In 1910 he was associated with Toynbee Hall, a resettlement house in Whitechapel, East London. Tudor was engaged in secretarial and literary work and was the author of a volume of poems entitled ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, published in 1908 (a photocopy of this book is included with the lot.)
During these years Tudor became involved with a set of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group, that had its origins at Cambridge University. This group included among its members Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keyes, Dora Carrington and Clive Bell. In 1910 he was associated with the Dreadnought Hoax.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole’s collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905 when he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a similar impersonation which was suggested to Cole by a friend who was an officer on HMS Hawke to hoax their rivals on HMS Dreadnought, including Commander Willie Fisher - Stephens’ cousin - who was on the staff of the Admiral. As Virginia Woolf later recounted ‘In those days the young officers had a gay time. They were always up to some lark; and one of their chief occupations it seemed was to play jokes on each other. There were a great many rivalries and intrigues in the navy. The officers like scoring off each other. And the officers of the Hawke and the Dreadnought had a feud. ... And Cole’s friend who was on the Hawke had come to Cole, and said to him, ‘You’re a great hand at hoaxing people; couldn’t you do something to pull the leg of the Dreadnought
This involved Cole and five friends - writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant - who had themselves disguised ‘by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.’ The main limitation of the disguises was that the ‘royals’ could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of ‘interpreter’.
On 7 February 1910 the hoax was set in motion. Cole organised for an accomplice to send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset. The message said that the ship must be prepared for the visit of a group of princes from Abyssinia and was purportedly signed by Foreign Office Under-secretary Sir Charles Hardinge. Cole with his entourage went to London’s Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was ‘Herbert Cholmondeley’ of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach.
In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar’s national anthem.The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. Commander Fisher failed to recognise either of his cousins. When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the ‘princes’ to the Daily Mirror. The group’s pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The Navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law.
During the visit to Dreadnought, the visitors had repeatedly shown amazement or appreciation by exclaiming ‘Bunga Bunga!’ In 1915 during the First World War, HMS Dreadnought rammed and sank a German submarine - the only battleship ever to do so. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one that read ‘BUNGA BUNGA’.
For his role in this affair, Tudor was threatened with possible arrest, he was never formally charged but for this, or other reasons he left England shortly after to work on a Government survey of Australia.
On October the 24th 1912 Tudor married Muriel Isabel Catherine Howard. Tudor was then employed as a Land Agent on his father-in-law’s Hampton House Lodge Estate, in Seale, West Surrey.
With the outbreak of the Great War, Tudor enlisted in the 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers on the 15th September 1914, being given Service Number 175. He served 152 days in the ranks before being discharged to Commission on the 13th February 1915, being granted a Regular Temporary Commission in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was posted to the 8th Battalion on the 2nd July 1916, joining the battalion at Morlancourt sand pit where the Battalion was in tents training for its move to Guillemont on the 8th July. He took part in the unsuccessful attack by his Battalion on the Quarry near Guillemont, the Battalion losing 7 Officers and 89 Other Ranks, they moved out of the line after this attack returning to the Front area on the 31st August 1916 at Fricourt, moving up through Mametz to the village of Montauban and Danzig Alley Trench in preparation for their attack on Delville Wood on the 1st September. Whilst in this reserve position on the 31st August 1916 the Battalion was bombarded all day by the enemy, and it was during this bombardment that 2/Lt Castle was killed by a gas shell. He was 34 years old. He is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 36 of Danzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
His name is on the Harrow School War Memorial, the Memorial was built on the site of Mr. Moss’s House, Tudor’s House whilst he was at the school
The lot is sold with copy service papers, copy of the 8th Battalion War Diary, a photocopy of his book ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, a letter from the archivist of Trinity College Cambridge and five copy photographs of Tudor, Muriel, a Battalion Officers’ photograph and an original photograph of his headstone in Dantzig Alley.
To Mrs Castle – Sandy Cross, Seale, Farnham, Surrey. ‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt T.R. Castle West Surreys killed in action – August 31st – The Army Council express their sympathy’
Tudor Ralph Castle was born on 28th December 1882 at ‘Woodlands Villa’, Brentford, London. He was the second son of Eleanor Wilhelmina (Sadleir) and William Henry Castle. The family later moved to Kensington, London
Tudor was admitted to Harrow School in September 1896 and resided in Mr Moss’s House, Church Hill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1901 and graduated with a B.A. Hons in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 1904. As an undergraduate Tudor joined two Trinity poetry societies, the X Society and the Shakespeare Society, serving successively as Secretary and President of the X Society.
Following graduation, Tudor travelled to India, Spain and Germany. In 1910 he was associated with Toynbee Hall, a resettlement house in Whitechapel, East London. Tudor was engaged in secretarial and literary work and was the author of a volume of poems entitled ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, published in 1908 (a photocopy of this book is included with the lot.)
During these years Tudor became involved with a set of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group, that had its origins at Cambridge University. This group included among its members Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keyes, Dora Carrington and Clive Bell. In 1910 he was associated with the Dreadnought Hoax.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole’s collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905 when he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a similar impersonation which was suggested to Cole by a friend who was an officer on HMS Hawke to hoax their rivals on HMS Dreadnought, including Commander Willie Fisher - Stephens’ cousin - who was on the staff of the Admiral. As Virginia Woolf later recounted ‘In those days the young officers had a gay time. They were always up to some lark; and one of their chief occupations it seemed was to play jokes on each other. There were a great many rivalries and intrigues in the navy. The officers like scoring off each other. And the officers of the Hawke and the Dreadnought had a feud. ... And Cole’s friend who was on the Hawke had come to Cole, and said to him, ‘You’re a great hand at hoaxing people; couldn’t you do something to pull the leg of the Dreadnought
This involved Cole and five friends - writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant - who had themselves disguised ‘by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.’ The main limitation of the disguises was that the ‘royals’ could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of ‘interpreter’.
On 7 February 1910 the hoax was set in motion. Cole organised for an accomplice to send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset. The message said that the ship must be prepared for the visit of a group of princes from Abyssinia and was purportedly signed by Foreign Office Under-secretary Sir Charles Hardinge. Cole with his entourage went to London’s Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was ‘Herbert Cholmondeley’ of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach.
In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar’s national anthem.The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. Commander Fisher failed to recognise either of his cousins. When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the ‘princes’ to the Daily Mirror. The group’s pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The Navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law.
During the visit to Dreadnought, the visitors had repeatedly shown amazement or appreciation by exclaiming ‘Bunga Bunga!’ In 1915 during the First World War, HMS Dreadnought rammed and sank a German submarine - the only battleship ever to do so. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one that read ‘BUNGA BUNGA’.
For his role in this affair, Tudor was threatened with possible arrest, he was never formally charged but for this, or other reasons he left England shortly after to work on a Government survey of Australia.
On October the 24th 1912 Tudor married Muriel Isabel Catherine Howard. Tudor was then employed as a Land Agent on his father-in-law’s Hampton House Lodge Estate, in Seale, West Surrey.
With the outbreak of the Great War, Tudor enlisted in the 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers on the 15th September 1914, being given Service Number 175. He served 152 days in the ranks before being discharged to Commission on the 13th February 1915, being granted a Regular Temporary Commission in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was posted to the 8th Battalion on the 2nd July 1916, joining the battalion at Morlancourt sand pit where the Battalion was in tents training for its move to Guillemont on the 8th July. He took part in the unsuccessful attack by his Battalion on the Quarry near Guillemont, the Battalion losing 7 Officers and 89 Other Ranks, they moved out of the line after this attack returning to the Front area on the 31st August 1916 at Fricourt, moving up through Mametz to the village of Montauban and Danzig Alley Trench in preparation for their attack on Delville Wood on the 1st September. Whilst in this reserve position on the 31st August 1916 the Battalion was bombarded all day by the enemy, and it was during this bombardment that 2/Lt Castle was killed by a gas shell. He was 34 years old. He is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 36 of Danzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
His name is on the Harrow School War Memorial, the Memorial was built on the site of Mr. Moss’s House, Tudor’s House whilst he was at the school
The lot is sold with copy service papers, copy of the 8th Battalion War Diary, a photocopy of his book ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, a letter from the archivist of Trinity College Cambridge and five copy photographs of Tudor, Muriel, a Battalion Officers’ photograph and an original photograph of his headstone in Dantzig Alley.
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Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A 1916 Montauban/Dantzig Alley Officer Casualty, 8th Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T. R. Castle, a pre-war poet and associate of the Bloomsbury Group, comprising: 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut T. R. Castle); Memorial Plaque (Tudor Ralph Castle), War Medal lightly toned, Victory Medal as issued, Plaque very fine, housed in velvet mount (2)
To Mrs Castle – Sandy Cross, Seale, Farnham, Surrey. ‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt T.R. Castle West Surreys killed in action – August 31st – The Army Council express their sympathy’
Tudor Ralph Castle was born on 28th December 1882 at ‘Woodlands Villa’, Brentford, London. He was the second son of Eleanor Wilhelmina (Sadleir) and William Henry Castle. The family later moved to Kensington, London
Tudor was admitted to Harrow School in September 1896 and resided in Mr Moss’s House, Church Hill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1901 and graduated with a B.A. Hons in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 1904. As an undergraduate Tudor joined two Trinity poetry societies, the X Society and the Shakespeare Society, serving successively as Secretary and President of the X Society.
Following graduation, Tudor travelled to India, Spain and Germany. In 1910 he was associated with Toynbee Hall, a resettlement house in Whitechapel, East London. Tudor was engaged in secretarial and literary work and was the author of a volume of poems entitled ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, published in 1908 (a photocopy of this book is included with the lot.)
During these years Tudor became involved with a set of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group, that had its origins at Cambridge University. This group included among its members Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keyes, Dora Carrington and Clive Bell. In 1910 he was associated with the Dreadnought Hoax.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole’s collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905 when he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a similar impersonation which was suggested to Cole by a friend who was an officer on HMS Hawke to hoax their rivals on HMS Dreadnought, including Commander Willie Fisher - Stephens’ cousin - who was on the staff of the Admiral. As Virginia Woolf later recounted ‘In those days the young officers had a gay time. They were always up to some lark; and one of their chief occupations it seemed was to play jokes on each other. There were a great many rivalries and intrigues in the navy. The officers like scoring off each other. And the officers of the Hawke and the Dreadnought had a feud. ... And Cole’s friend who was on the Hawke had come to Cole, and said to him, ‘You’re a great hand at hoaxing people; couldn’t you do something to pull the leg of the Dreadnought
This involved Cole and five friends - writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant - who had themselves disguised ‘by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.’ The main limitation of the disguises was that the ‘royals’ could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of ‘interpreter’.
On 7 February 1910 the hoax was set in motion. Cole organised for an accomplice to send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset. The message said that the ship must be prepared for the visit of a group of princes from Abyssinia and was purportedly signed by Foreign Office Under-secretary Sir Charles Hardinge. Cole with his entourage went to London’s Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was ‘Herbert Cholmondeley’ of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach.
In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar’s national anthem.The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. Commander Fisher failed to recognise either of his cousins. When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the ‘princes’ to the Daily Mirror. The group’s pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The Navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law.
During the visit to Dreadnought, the visitors had repeatedly shown amazement or appreciation by exclaiming ‘Bunga Bunga!’ In 1915 during the First World War, HMS Dreadnought rammed and sank a German submarine - the only battleship ever to do so. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one that read ‘BUNGA BUNGA’.
For his role in this affair, Tudor was threatened with possible arrest, he was never formally charged but for this, or other reasons he left England shortly after to work on a Government survey of Australia.
On October the 24th 1912 Tudor married Muriel Isabel Catherine Howard. Tudor was then employed as a Land Agent on his father-in-law’s Hampton House Lodge Estate, in Seale, West Surrey.
With the outbreak of the Great War, Tudor enlisted in the 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers on the 15th September 1914, being given Service Number 175. He served 152 days in the ranks before being discharged to Commission on the 13th February 1915, being granted a Regular Temporary Commission in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was posted to the 8th Battalion on the 2nd July 1916, joining the battalion at Morlancourt sand pit where the Battalion was in tents training for its move to Guillemont on the 8th July. He took part in the unsuccessful attack by his Battalion on the Quarry near Guillemont, the Battalion losing 7 Officers and 89 Other Ranks, they moved out of the line after this attack returning to the Front area on the 31st August 1916 at Fricourt, moving up through Mametz to the village of Montauban and Danzig Alley Trench in preparation for their attack on Delville Wood on the 1st September. Whilst in this reserve position on the 31st August 1916 the Battalion was bombarded all day by the enemy, and it was during this bombardment that 2/Lt Castle was killed by a gas shell. He was 34 years old. He is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 36 of Danzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
His name is on the Harrow School War Memorial, the Memorial was built on the site of Mr. Moss’s House, Tudor’s House whilst he was at the school
The lot is sold with copy service papers, copy of the 8th Battalion War Diary, a photocopy of his book ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, a letter from the archivist of Trinity College Cambridge and five copy photographs of Tudor, Muriel, a Battalion Officers’ photograph and an original photograph of his headstone in Dantzig Alley.
To Mrs Castle – Sandy Cross, Seale, Farnham, Surrey. ‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt T.R. Castle West Surreys killed in action – August 31st – The Army Council express their sympathy’
Tudor Ralph Castle was born on 28th December 1882 at ‘Woodlands Villa’, Brentford, London. He was the second son of Eleanor Wilhelmina (Sadleir) and William Henry Castle. The family later moved to Kensington, London
Tudor was admitted to Harrow School in September 1896 and resided in Mr Moss’s House, Church Hill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1901 and graduated with a B.A. Hons in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 1904. As an undergraduate Tudor joined two Trinity poetry societies, the X Society and the Shakespeare Society, serving successively as Secretary and President of the X Society.
Following graduation, Tudor travelled to India, Spain and Germany. In 1910 he was associated with Toynbee Hall, a resettlement house in Whitechapel, East London. Tudor was engaged in secretarial and literary work and was the author of a volume of poems entitled ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, published in 1908 (a photocopy of this book is included with the lot.)
During these years Tudor became involved with a set of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group, that had its origins at Cambridge University. This group included among its members Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keyes, Dora Carrington and Clive Bell. In 1910 he was associated with the Dreadnought Hoax.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole’s collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905 when he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The Dreadnought Hoax was a similar impersonation which was suggested to Cole by a friend who was an officer on HMS Hawke to hoax their rivals on HMS Dreadnought, including Commander Willie Fisher - Stephens’ cousin - who was on the staff of the Admiral. As Virginia Woolf later recounted ‘In those days the young officers had a gay time. They were always up to some lark; and one of their chief occupations it seemed was to play jokes on each other. There were a great many rivalries and intrigues in the navy. The officers like scoring off each other. And the officers of the Hawke and the Dreadnought had a feud. ... And Cole’s friend who was on the Hawke had come to Cole, and said to him, ‘You’re a great hand at hoaxing people; couldn’t you do something to pull the leg of the Dreadnought
This involved Cole and five friends - writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant - who had themselves disguised ‘by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.’ The main limitation of the disguises was that the ‘royals’ could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of ‘interpreter’.
On 7 February 1910 the hoax was set in motion. Cole organised for an accomplice to send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset. The message said that the ship must be prepared for the visit of a group of princes from Abyssinia and was purportedly signed by Foreign Office Under-secretary Sir Charles Hardinge. Cole with his entourage went to London’s Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was ‘Herbert Cholmondeley’ of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach.
In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar’s national anthem.The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. Commander Fisher failed to recognise either of his cousins. When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the ‘princes’ to the Daily Mirror. The group’s pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The Navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law.
During the visit to Dreadnought, the visitors had repeatedly shown amazement or appreciation by exclaiming ‘Bunga Bunga!’ In 1915 during the First World War, HMS Dreadnought rammed and sank a German submarine - the only battleship ever to do so. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one that read ‘BUNGA BUNGA’.
For his role in this affair, Tudor was threatened with possible arrest, he was never formally charged but for this, or other reasons he left England shortly after to work on a Government survey of Australia.
On October the 24th 1912 Tudor married Muriel Isabel Catherine Howard. Tudor was then employed as a Land Agent on his father-in-law’s Hampton House Lodge Estate, in Seale, West Surrey.
With the outbreak of the Great War, Tudor enlisted in the 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers on the 15th September 1914, being given Service Number 175. He served 152 days in the ranks before being discharged to Commission on the 13th February 1915, being granted a Regular Temporary Commission in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was posted to the 8th Battalion on the 2nd July 1916, joining the battalion at Morlancourt sand pit where the Battalion was in tents training for its move to Guillemont on the 8th July. He took part in the unsuccessful attack by his Battalion on the Quarry near Guillemont, the Battalion losing 7 Officers and 89 Other Ranks, they moved out of the line after this attack returning to the Front area on the 31st August 1916 at Fricourt, moving up through Mametz to the village of Montauban and Danzig Alley Trench in preparation for their attack on Delville Wood on the 1st September. Whilst in this reserve position on the 31st August 1916 the Battalion was bombarded all day by the enemy, and it was during this bombardment that 2/Lt Castle was killed by a gas shell. He was 34 years old. He is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 36 of Danzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
His name is on the Harrow School War Memorial, the Memorial was built on the site of Mr. Moss’s House, Tudor’s House whilst he was at the school
The lot is sold with copy service papers, copy of the 8th Battalion War Diary, a photocopy of his book ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, a letter from the archivist of Trinity College Cambridge and five copy photographs of Tudor, Muriel, a Battalion Officers’ photograph and an original photograph of his headstone in Dantzig Alley.
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(6) All lots are subject to a Buyer's Premium of 24.00%, inclusive of VAT, (20% + VAT), payable by the buyer if resident in the EU. The symbol 'G' appearing next to a lot in this catalogue indicates the item is 'Investment Gold' and therefore a VAT-registered trader can submit a claim to HM Revenue and Customs to recover the VAT element of the Buyer’s Premium. In the case of a lot marked with a dagger (†), import VAT at 5% will be added to the hammer price and will be payable by the buyer if resident in the EU. If the lot is being exported outside the EU, this import VAT can be waived or refunded on proof of export.
(7) Each bidder shall be deemed to act as principal unless the Company acknowledges in writing prior to the auction that he acts as agent for a named third-party principal. For bidders unable to attend the auction in person, commissions will be executed free-of-charge. Such bids must be written and must be received at least 24 hours before the sale begins. The Company cannot guarantee to execute bids received less than 24 hours before the sale. 'Buy' bids will not be accepted. The Company shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in executing such commissions.
(8) All buyers must, if requested, notify their name and address to the auctioneer and, if required, provide additional proof of identification, bank references or other credit references. All buyers must pay the full purchase price, at the point of collection of purchases, or a fractional deposit as may be determined at the auctioneer's discretion, unless the Company has previously arranged credit terms. Seven working days must be allowed for clearance of personal cheques before delivery can be made unless a prior agreement has been reached. A 2.5% surcharge will be applied to all credit card payments.
(9) Ownership of lots does not pass to the buyer until the Company has received payment in full.
(10) All lots, however, are held to be at the buyer's risk from the fall of the hammer. All lots shall be removed by the buyer within seven working days after the date of the sale. Any lots not so removed may become liable to removal, insurance and storage charges. Such lots may, at the auctioneer's discretion, be re-offered for sale at auction or by private treaty without further notice to the buyer.
(11) All lots are offered for sale subject to any reserve price that may be imposed by the seller. The seller may not subsequently change the reserve without the agreement of the Company. Where a reserve has been set, only the auctioneer may bid on behalf of the seller. Lots are normally reserved at 80% of lower estimate, with auctioneer's discretion. Unless re-offered for sale, the collection of unsold lots shall be the responsibility of the seller.
(12) (a) Lots are sold as shown with all faults, imperfections and errors of description and lack of authenticity. The Sale of Goods Act 1979 does not apply to the sale of any lot. Neither the Company nor the seller shall give any warranty to any buyer in respect of any lot or be liable for any fault or error of description or lack of genuineness or authenticity of any lot. All statements as to items sold, whether made in catalogues, during the course of the auction or otherwise, are statements of opinion only and are not and shall not be taken to be statements or representations of fact. The Company reserves the right in forming their opinion to consult and rely upon any expert or authority considered by them to be reliable. Coins are graded to accepted UK standards to the best ability of our specialists. You acknowledge that the grading of coins is subjective and may vary from specialist to specialist, as the process is by nature an art and not a science. For this reason, we do not automatically accept and are not bound by the opinions of third party coin grading services for any purposes including before and after the sale of a lot.
(b) Refund policy – notwithstanding the foregoing, if any lot should be proved by the buyer to be not genuine or authentic, or to have been wrongly described in any material respect, the buyer may reject the same provided that he has given notice in writing of his intention so to do and shall have returned the same to the Company within one month from, and in the same condition as at, the date of sale. If the coin was in a plastic holder at the time of sale, we cannot accept its return if it has been removed from that holder. The onus of proving a lot to be not genuine or authentic or to have been wrongly described shall lie with the buyer. Proof of the inability of any recognised expert or authority to express a definite opinion shall not discharge such onus. If the buyer shall discharge such onus, the auctioneers shall rescind the sale and repay to the buyer the price paid by him. Save as provided herein, the Company shall not under any circumstances whatsoever be liable for any costs, expenses or damages (whether direct, indirect, special or consequential) incurred or suffered by the buyer in respect of any lot, whether or not as a result of any fault, imperfection, error or description or lack of genuineness or authenticity, including but not limited to loss of any kind of profit whatsoever. The buyer will not be entitled to claim interest on the amount due to him. The buyer shall not be entitled to a refund for any lot for any reason save as set out in this clause 12(b).
(13) Save as provided in the preceding paragraph of these conditions buyers must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of their purchases at the time of delivery. The Company cannot be held responsible for any discrepancy which might be discovered after the lots have been removed from either the auction room or the auctioneers' premises.
(14) As stated in paragraph (1), the Company acts solely as agent between buyer and seller and shall not be held responsible for any default by either party or for any action or claim that may arise in connection with any lot.
(15) Any part of the purchase price still outstanding after the auction, in line with the terms of paragraph (8), shall be paid in full within thirty days of the date of the auction. Without prejudice to any other rights, the Company reserves the right to charge interest on any overdue payment at a rate of three per cent per month. In the event that the company shall have paid the seller (normally 35 days after the sale) and part of the purchase price is still outstanding, title to the lot will pass to the Company. The Company shall then have the right to sell any other goods belonging to the buyer and held by the Company for whatever reason at such a price that the company, in its absolute discretion, thinks fit. The buyer shall also reimburse the Company for any additional costs incurred in this process.
(16) Buyers accepting commissions from third parties do so at their own risk. They remain responsible to the Company for full settlement according to these conditions.
(17) Privacy Policy - We may collect and process information you give to us such as your name, address and references. We will use this information to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us or that we offer. We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. We may share your information with selected third parties including: business partners, advertisers and analytics. We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the event we sell or buy any business or assets in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer or such business or assets or if we are under a duty to disclosure or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
(18) By making a bid, the buyer acknowledges his acceptance of these conditions and agrees to be bound by them.
(19) If any buyer fails to comply with any of these Conditions, the lot or lots in respect of which the failure is made may at the discretion of the Company be put up again and resold. The damages recoverable from the defaulting buyer shall include, but not be limited to, the auctioneers' expenses and commission in respect of the resale and the amount (if any) by which the price obtained on the resale is exceeded by that obtained on the first sale.
(20) A variation of these Conditions shall only be binding on the Company and the seller if it is made in writing and signed by a duly authorised representative of the Company.
(21) These Conditions shall take effect and be construed in accordance with the provisions of English law.
