Photography - WW1 - Royal Flying Corps - a photograph album, compiled by Mr W.P. Southall, RFC, Squadrons 7-28-72, various annotations, Proctors Sop[with] Crash, Pup Brough In, After a Rat Hunt, MF Crash, A.W.S. Pumping at Home, Waiting To Fly At Salisbury, Netheravon, others, 8vo William Percival Southall (1898-1918), born to Alfred William and Ethel Marion Southall of Cliffords Mesne, near Newent, Gloucestershire. The Southalls were a well-established Quaker family and as a result Lieutenant Southall was an old boy of the Quaker boarding-school Leighton Park, Reading. Despite his peace-loving education Southall was shot down over Lucon on 23rd May 1918 while reputedly attacking six German aircraft. His death was credited to German fighter ace, Paul Billik (1891-1926). His remains are interned at Arras Flying Services Memorial and Edgbaston Old Church War Memorial has an inscription for a 2nd Lieutenant W.P. Southall (RFC/RAF), ref. 251218.
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Selection of WW1 "Battle" Brooches for Towns of the Western FrontAn interesting and varied selection depicting the Town Crests, some with, swords, Tank etc. Towns represented include" Arras. ... Peronne (Tank). ... Bailleul. ... etc. Base metal construction, some with enamel decoration. complete with pins. (33 items)
Military Medal, G.V.R. (3187 B. S. Mjr W. G. Sandys. R.G.A.), well-toned, small obverse edge nick, otherwise good very fine or better. M.M.: London Gazette, 20 August 1919. Battery Sergeant Major William George Sandys, M.M., M.S.M., of Portsmouth, Hampshire, was born c. February 1883, and served as a regular soldier, enlisting in February 1899. From 1914 to 1916 he was engaged on what the National Roll of the Great War describes as ‘important home duties’ which seem to have been as part of the batteries defending Portsmouth naval base. In 1916 he was sent to the Western Front and fought on the Somme and at Arras and Cambrai, being awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery in the field and the Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette: 18 January 1919. After the War, he returned to Portsmouth and joined 154th Siege Battery. Offered with a copy of his Medal Index Card and of his entry in the National Roll of the Great War, showing entitlement to additional Great War Pair and Meritorious Service Medal. He died in or about May 1966.
A BRONZE RFC OBSERVERS (BOHME's-11th) MEMORIAL PLAQUE. A Memorial or Death Plaque named to George William Bathurst Bradford, who was shotdown by the German Ace Erwin Bohme. Attached to 15 Squadron from the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was Bohme's (11th Kill) and his second victim on the 4th February 1917. Bohme had returned early from leave, upon hearing of his Jasta's losses. George W B Bradford was the son of Lora Bradford of 32 Park Road, Kimberley, South Africa. Born in 1895, he enlisted in the 1st South African Infantry as Private 3901. His brother Francis Keysall Bradford served in both Wars, in the 3rd Queen Alexandria's Own Gurkha Rifles. In 1942 he died in Burma, commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial. The husband of Mrs A L Bradford, the daughter of Brig- General H G Lloyd CMG. DSO. They lived at Mooi River, Natal, S Africa. In George W B Bradfords will he left £171:16s- 6d to be handled by his Attorney, Charles Cyril Bradford, to his mother. A descendant of among others Richard and Anne W Woodygate, also William Keysall Bradford. Erwin Bohme was the protege of Boelcke with whom he collided in 1916 during aerial action. Boelcke the darling of the fledgling German Air Force, lost his life in the ensuing crash. G W B Bradford was an Observer in a BE2E No 7105 from (15 Sqdn), his Pilot was Sjt Frederick James Shaw, when shotdown over Hebuterne France around 15:30 hrs. They were on a Recce or Offensive Patrol, now commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial. Ernst Bohme credited with 24 Kills was himself shotdown in flames, by Captain John Patten RFC and Lt Phililp Leycester observer RFC. Polished but very much legible, in its card cover. See Illustration
*Trench Art. A large collection of Great War and later brass trench art, including a string box with engraved decoration 'Arras - Souvenir from France 1914', 11cm high, another box and cover with applied Canada regimental badge and Canada badge, 10cm high, another in the form of an officer's hat dated 1918 with Seaforth Highlanders Canada badge additionally engraved Malaya 1941-42, another cap engraved Souvenir from France Ypres dated 1917, several large shell cases, nose cones, jugs, lighters etc. (3 cartons)
*WWI Imperial German Aircraft. A fine section of an original German aircraft fabric, circa 1917, with large painted black Iron Cross on a brown, or "field green" ground, with a contemporary inscription in pencil to the upper edge 'from Aircraft shot down, Arras April 1917, 2 Sqn RFC', 54cm x 58cm, mounted on board and displayed in a modern frame, glazed Provenance: Private collection, Scotland. In April 1917 the Royal Flying Corps suffered their heaviest losses during the Battle of Arras, otherwise known as "Bloody April", with 245 British Aircraft lost to 66 German Aircraft. One of the original squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps, 2 Squadron was one of the earliest to be deployed on active service in France. The squadron is particularly noteworthy for the exploits of William Rhodes-Moorhouse, who in 1915 became the first airman to win the Victoria Cross. (1)
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*Mace (John Edmund). A war-torn winter scene in Arras, 1918, pencil, watercolour and gouache on buff paper, signed and dated with location to lower margin, 24 x 34 cm, framed and glazed John Edmund Mace RBA (born 1889) was an official War Artist in France from 1918 to 1919. He was a private in the Hampshire regiment, commissioned into Royal West Kents and transferred to the 25th Field Company, Royal Engineers, and here signing himself 'J.E. Mace 25 RE'. (1)
*Arthur (2nd Lieutenant William Hugh Duncan, born 1892). A small group of 12 mostly pencil drawings, 1917, some drawn during the third battle of Ypres in 1917, subjects include Ypres Cathedral, the shattered Hotel de Ville at Arras, the shattered belfry and a shell-torn street at Bailleul, the artist's billet, Cathedral of St Omer, plus a market scene in Alexandria and 2 sketches of Cairo, mostly inscribed and dated, various mostly small sheet sizes but including 1 mounted pen and ink and wash drawing of Ypres Cathedral, 34.5 x 24.5 cm Duncan served with the 9th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. (12)
WWI - German Diary. A monumental fair copy transcript of the letters of Walter Berlin of the 8th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment, written to his mother Lina Berlin in Nuremburg, 1914-18, 9 volumes, written up 1933-37 for Walter's 50th birthday, neatly written in purple ink in a large and legible but very difficult hand to rectos and versos throughout, beginning at the start of the war in August 1914 and writing almost daily until the end of the war in 1918, 1914 as 1 volume, each year thereafter bound as 2 volumes, a total of approximately 3,500 numbered pages, a few scattered diagrams, some original letters, postcards, telegrams, memos, a menu, etc. tipped in, contemporary brown boards, each titled in gilt 'Weltkrieg' with year and part numbering, rubbed, one spine near detached, folio (33 x 22 cm) An incredible and thorough record of a German Jewish artillery officer's complete war. His regiment was on the Western Front and engaged actively from the beginning to the end of the war. It was present at the Battle of Alsace Lorraine, Verdun, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arras and the big battles of 1918. Dr Walter Berlin (1887-1963) was born in Nuremberg. He studied law, obtaining his doctorate in 1913. Throughout the First World War he served in the 8th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment and was discharged as captain and battery commander. He was awarded the Iron Cross First and Second Class and the Bavarian Order of Military Merit Fourth Class with Crown and Swords. He also had the badge signifying that he'd been wounded. From 1919 Dr Walter Berlin practised as a solicitor in Nuremberg, and actively represented Jewish interests. He was a chairman of the Nuremburg branch, and a member of the National Board, of the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith (the 'Central-Verein') whose main purpose was the fight against anti-Semitism. In this capacity he gave evidence, in 1929, against the Nazi 'Gauleiter' Julius Streicher before a jury in a Nuremburg court. Streicher was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for incitement to class hatred. After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, Jewish lawyers were forbidden to represent 'Aryan' clients and Walter Berlin acted exclusively for Jews. In his efforts to help endangered Jews Walter Berlin was often supported by the Nuremburg police president, Dr Benno Martin. Later, during what became known as the 'Kristallnacht' on 9th and 10th November 1938, Berlin was arrested by SA-men and severely beaten resulting in the loss of one eye. He was released from prison at the end of November but had his right to practise as a lawyer taken away. In April 1939 Walter and his wife Rose emigrated to England, reuniting with their two children towards the end of the year in London. In London he joined fellow refugees from Germany and founded the Belsize Square Synagogue. Initially unemployed, he became a fire watcher during the Second World War for the owners of a London office building. His main task was to make German incendiary bombs harmless during air raids and for this he was awarded the British Defence medal. He took up accountancy learning the profession in the office building which he guarded. He worked as an accountant until the end of his life, dying in London on 21 August 1963 aged 76. (9)
A Large Accumulation of Early-Mid XX Century British Picture Postcards. Good topographical views from all around the country with a good amount of Yorkshire interest including Sheffield. One or two WWI cards noted including the bombed out remains of the church at Arras; together with some comic cards, conditions vary but nonetheless some interesting material.
A Piece of Aircraft Canvas from a British BE2 No. A2815 of 16 Squadron, Shot Down by Baron von Richthofen, Flying Albatross DIII Nr.2253/17, on the 8th of April 1917 over Vimy Ridge, Cut and Recovered from the Airframe by Captain John Alfred Pope Haydon M.C. of the Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch) 42nd Battalion C.E.F. the remnant inscribed in pencil by Captain Haydon ‘Part of Wing of British Plane Shot Down at Vimy Ridge 17 April by Baron von Richthofen - The Red Ace’ Von Richthofen’s Combat Report: 1640 hrs Vimy, this side of the lines. BE2 No. A2815 Occupants: Both killed, remnants distributed over more than one kilometre‘I was flying and surprised artillery flyer. After a very few shots the plane broke to pieces and fell near Vimy, on this side of the lines’Richthofen gained this, his second kill of the day, by encountering the 16 squadron crew who were engaged on making a photo mosaic of the village of Farbus, just hours before the British offensive was due to begin. They had taken off at 1500 hrs and British ground observers witnessed their BE shot down by a hostile aircraft at 1640, 1,000 west of Vimy. There had been a report that they fell on the British side and were buried by British troops, but Richthofen not only claimed they fell inside the German lines, but also that he had secured the serial number for his trophy room. Due to them falling in the battle area, the two young men were not buried immediately, but seven days later by British soldiers, near Bois de Bonval, by advancing Allied troops during the battle of Arras.Second Lieutenant Keith Ingleby Mackenzie 16 Squadron, Argyll and Sutherland HighlandersAlong with Corporal Beebee, Mackenzie who was born on the 26th of June 1898, the son of K W I and Florence Mackenzie of Lansdowne House, Ryde, Isle of Wight was the youngest of von Richthofen’s. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in April 1916 whilst still only seventeen years old. He was awards the Royal Aero Aviators Certificate (No.2906) on the 17th of May 1916, being attached to the Royal Flying Corps shortly afterwards. He is buried in Bois-Carre British Cemetery, Thelus France.Second Lieutenant Guy Everingham 16 Squadron, Royal Welsh FusiliersThe elder son of William and Patricia Florence Everingham, Guy was born in Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales on the 28th of June 1894, privately educated, he was living at ‘Vaenor’, Hawarden Road, Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, North Wales when war broke out in August 1914. He enlisted as a private soldier in the 13th (1st North Wales) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in October 1914. Soon picked out as ‘officer material’ he was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the same battalion on the 25th of February 1915. His youngest brother a trooper with the Welsh Horse was killed at Gallipoli on the 10th of December 1915. Guy was sent to France in March 1916 and served as a line officer before being sent for more specialised work as a bombing officer in the 113th trench Mortar Battery, a successful application for transfer to the Royal Flying Corps followed in September later that year. His training as an observer was briefly interrupted when he married Gladys Annie Brown at Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno on the 19th of February returning to France shortly afterward. Guy Everingham is buried alongside his young pilot in Bois-Carre, he was twenty-two years old, and had been married barely six weeks. Captain John Alfred Pope Haydon M.C.London Gazette 1 February 1919: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative during operations at BOIRY NOTRE DAME on August 28th, 1918. With great gallantry, this battalion scout officer took a patrol into Jigsaw Wood, captured six prisoners, and secured valuable information as to the disposition of the enemy.’ Hayden receives several mentions in the regimental history of the Royal Highlanders of Canada, which also confirms that he was wounded twice during war. ‘When war broke out Captain Haydon was employed as editor of the “Eganville Enterprise,” Eganville, Ottawa. In November, 1914, he resigned that position and accepted employment in the Government Printing Bureau at Ottawa. In January, 1915, he enlisted in the 38th Overseas Battalion but being unable to secure Leave of Absence from the Bureau at that time was accordingly discharged. In the early part of August, it was decided by the employees of the Printing Bureau to present a machine gun to the 77th Battalion, and it was proposed that the employees should man it from among themselves. This view was concurred in, and the proposition was submitted to the King’s Printer with the result that a few days later a Leave of Absence was granted to Captain Haydon and five other. Therefore, on August 26th, , Jack Haydon, as he is more familiarly known, became No. 145130 Private J. A. P. Haydon. He was attached to the Machine Gun Section, but in a short time was transferred to “B” Company and made Orderly Room Clerk with the rank of Acting Sergeant. Went overseas in June, 1916, served in England with the 77th, 73rd and 20th Reserve Battalions and 1st Q.R.D., and in France with the 73rd, 85th and 42nd Battalions. Was wounded twice - on March 8th, 1917, and September 13th, 1918. Was given his commission on September 2nd, 1917. Upon his return to France from the Canadian Training School at Bexhill-on-Sea he was attached to the 42nd Battalion as Assistant Scout Officer, and later, upon the return to Canada of the Battalion Scout Officer, he was given that post and participated in all the engagements during the summer and fall of 1918. During the engagement in the Arras Section in August he was awarded the Military Cross. Captain Haydon was promoted to the rank of Acting Captain just prior to the Armistice.’ Captain Haydon died at Ottawa on 30 December 1969, and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa ( history of the Seventy-seventh Battalion C.E.F., Ottawa.)
A Great War trio to Lieutenant Gerald Annesley George Godley, Army Service Corps: 1914-15 Star (2. LIEUT: G.A.G. GODLEY. A.S.C.), British War and Victory Medals (LIEUT.), mounted for wearing, good very fine; together with a Princess Mary gift tin complete with tobacco and cigarettes (some missing), very fine. Gerald Annesley George Godley was the son of Major H. C. Godley D.S.O. (see lot 6) and grandson of Henry Godley 28th Foot (see lot 4). He died on the Arras front on March 26th 1918 and is remembered at the Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun
SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French Writer, Journalist and pioneering Aviator. Best known for his works The Little Prince (1943). Signed 4 x 3 card, Antoine de Saint Exupery, the card bearing the printed text of his memoir Flight to Arras (1942). To the verso of the card bearing the printed text "By the author of Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars". VG £200-300 Flight to Arras (1942) recounts Saint Exupery´s pilot role in the French Air Forces during the Battle of France in 1940.
Four: Military Medal Geo V first type (84506 Dvr F Hemmings 41/By RFA), 1914-15 star, BWM, Victory. VF-GVF with photocopies of recipient’s service records. Note: Frederick Hemmings 41st Btty 42nd Bde, 3rd Div. Arrived France 21.6.1915, MM London Gazette 6.8.1918, Bde in the area of Arras at this time.
A set of six 19th century American silver grapefruit spoons, by D Gillis Leonard, Newburgh, New York, circa 1841-1847, with star hallmarks to reverse and marked DG Leonard, approx. 4otz, together with a 19th century French souvenir spoon for Arras, Victorian Sheffield silver butter knife and some items of silver plate (a lot)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single Orders and Decorations for Gallantry, A Great War Military Medal and “Trench Raid” Bar, awarded to Lance Corporal J.A. Mitchell, 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; Military Medal and 2nd award bar GVR (11767 L. Cpl J.A. Mitchell. 6/Gord: Hdrs. T.F.). Toned, very fine. Military Medal London Gazette, 26 April 1917 Bar to the Military Medal London Gazette, 18 June 1917 At 6.10am on the morning of 5 March 1917, 300 men and 13 Officers took part in a Trench Raid at Roclincourt. “At zero minus 1 the artillery opened and punctually one minute later the first wave of raiders rushed over No-man’s Land and for the most part got into the German Trenches before the defenders could get out of their dug-outs, the second wave followed 50 yards behind the first with the objective of the German second line 70 yards further on. Considerable fighting took place in the German trenches – sixty German dead were counted and 21 prisoners captured including one officer, one machine-gun was brought back, one was smashed by a shell and 1 Anti-Aircraft gun was destroyed by bombs. Large mobile charges of ammonal and Stokes bombs were used to wreck shelters. In some cases, tins of petrol provided beforehand and perforated by the bayonet were flung down the dug-out stairs, followed a second later by a phosphorus bomb which ignited the petrol and made the dug-out a blazing inferno”. That afternoon Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haigh inspected the men who had taken part in the raid near Arras, the men parading in the dress and equipment they had worn in the attack. 54 men of the raiding party were killed, wounded or missing, 2 Military Crosses, 1 Distinguished Conduct Medal, 6 Military Medals and one Bar to the Military Medal were conferred upon the raiding party. Sold with copied War Diary and Battalion History of the 6th Gordons in France and Flanders, MiC, and London Gazette entries.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War “Night Attack” Military Cross Group of 3 awarded to Lieutenant W.A. Wood, 1st Battalion North Lancashire Regiment, attached 1/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment T.F., comprising Military Cross G.V.R, un-named as issued; British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (Lieut. W.A. Wood). Generally very fine, toned, contact marks and scratches to obverse of Victory. (3) Military Cross London Gazette, 30 February 1919 Military Cross Citation London Gazette, 30 July 1919 Temporary 2nd. Lieutenant W.A. Wood 1st Battalion North Lancashire Regiment, attached 1/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment T.F. For conspicuous gallantry and leadership. On 21 and 22 September 1918, near Gavrelle, north of Arras, during a night attack, this officer’s platoon was the only one which managed to reach and keep its objective. They maintained their position for some time, but, seeing that the enemy were working round them and that they were in, danger of being surrounded, he succeeded is spite of heavy machine-gun fire, in withdrawing his men to a more favourable position about 150 yards in the rear, in which he maintained himself, although very much in advance of the remainder of the line. By doing so he made possible a subsequent operation which was successful. He has previously done fine work on patrol. Acting Captain William Arthur Wood landed in France with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as 14108 C.Q.M.S. Wood on 31 July 1915 (entitled to 14-15 Star), after Commissioning he was attached to the 1/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment. Sold with m.i.c. confirming 140-15 Star, copied London Gazette entries and copies of Battalion War Diary.
A Victory Medal, and a General Service Medal, both ascribed to "24013 PTE. A. HORTON. CHES. R.", a British War Medal ascribed to "212882 SPR. W. ALLEN. R.E." and a Defence Medal, unascribed, all with ribbons, also a ribbon bar brooch, two badges, a bronze remembrance plaque, four WWI embroidered postcards, some banknotes, photographs, and two "The Arras Memorial" booklets. CONDITION REPORT: Name on the remembrance plaque - Arthur Horton.
Brothers x3 all Killed In Action WW1 - 1) 1915 Star Trio and Death Plaque (holed at top) to 12125 Pte George Griffin 2nd Bn Scots Guards, Killed In Action 16/5/1915, on the Le Touret Memorial. 2) BWM & Victory Medal to SPTS-4614 Pte John Griffin R.Fus, Killed In Action with 20th Bn on 22/5/1917, on the Arras Memorial. 3) 1915 Star Trio and Death Plaque (holed at top) to S-5953 Pte Robert Alexander Griffin 7th Bn R. Highlanders, Killed In Action 31/7/1917, Buried New Irish Farm Cemetery. All were born Wigtown, Scotland. (10)
Rossetti (Dante Gabriel). Poems, 1st edition, 1870, contemporary previous owner signature to front endpaper, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress and Other Poems, by Christina G. Rossetti, new edition, 1879, illustrations by D.G. Rossetti, some spotting and marginal waterstain, hinges a little tender, original cloth gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, inscribed to half title by the author, plus Green Arras, by Laurence Housman, 1st edition, 1896, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's list at end, slight toning, original green cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, with others including Odes and Other Poems, by John Cowper Powys, 1896, The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman, 1896, All-Fellows, by Laurence Housman, 1896, Poems, by Francis Thompson, 1895 and Jump to Glory Jane, by George Meredith, 1892 (14)
Royal Flying Corps Log Book and Letter Grouping of Lieutenant Thomas Frank Burrill Who Was Shot Down and Taken Prisoner of War and Held at the Infamous Holzminden Prisoner of War Camp, Scene of the First Great Escape, the log which starts with training in the UK and soon moves on to operational flights on the Western Front. His log notes an action in which he chases a Hun back whilst in formation flying between Arras and Albert. He notes in his log book that on 3rd April 1917 he shot down a German aircraft whilst on an offensive patrol between Arras and Cambrai. The last entry in the log is his first mission on 6th April as on his later mission that day he was shot down along with his gunner Private Smith by Lt H Gontermann of Jasta 5. Accompanying the log book are some original photographs including a group shot taken in a POW camp of various pilots and observers with Burrill being seated. Also a number of letters written to a sweetheart which give great detail about his time with the Royal Flying Corps from training to being an operational pilot on the Western Front. He describes in one letter dated January 14th 1917, rubbing Wale oil on his face to stop getting frost bite. A number of letters and postcards written by Burrill to his sweetheart (Lucy) from various prisoner of war camps describing the conditions, moaning about the food and complaining about the food that is being sent to him, he appears to demand only certain foods sent to him. In a letter sent in September 1918 he askes her to send him newspaper articles about the camp he is held in, this refers to news of the great escape of 29 officers in July 1918. A most complete grouping which makes for interesting reading. Thomas Frank Burrill was born on 27th April 1886 in Masham, Yorkshire. He was commissioned into the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry and in 1916 was attached to the Royal Flying Corps where he gained his flying license on 24th August 1916. After completing his training in December 1916 he was posted to 57 Squadron R.F.C in France. The squadron suffered heavy losses supporting the British offensive at Arras, on the day he was shot down the squadron suffered another four losses. Originally sent to a POW camp at Karlsruhe before being transferred to various other camps ending up at the famous officers POW camp at Holzminden. The Holzminden Prisoner of War camp, in Saxony, Germany, was the home of British and British Empire officers taken prisoner of war from September 1917 until December 1918. It was at this prisoner of war camp that the first “Great Escape” took place, with 29 men escaping through a tunnel, 10 of which evaded capture.
A late 15th to early 16th Century and later mille fleurs tapestry fragment, probably Tournai or possibly Arras, Flanders , the verdure or indigo ground profusely woven with flowers, bulrushes and plants, with hares, birds, unicorns, deer and other allegorical animals amongst the foliage, later columnar border, possibly late 16th or early 17th Century, the whole cut down from a larger work, width 2.44m height 1.62m. Literature: See C. Adelson, European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994, pp 105 -115 for similar example.
By Authority ADVICE OF ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL, MAJOR D. REITZ London: 1918 Official crested postcard addressed to Deneys Reitz's father F. W. Reitz Esq Senate, Cape Town, South Africa, notifying him that his son Major D. Reitz of the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers had been admitted to the 2nd British Red Cross Hospital, British Expeditionary Force stating that his son had received a gun shot wound in the buttocks. However, in Deneys Reitz's book 'Trekking On' that details his World War I experiences, he writes quite differently about his being wounded near Arras, October 1917, p. 190 - 191. "There were a few 5.9 shells dropping about...to this day I do not know what happened next, nor do I know what became of the orderly and the horses. All I know is that I found myself coming to on a stretcher...a doctor was cutting away my riding breeches...my stretcher stood on flagstones...a white-aproned surgeon with rubber gloves was probing my wounds, which consisted of several deep gashes, and injuries to arms and head. He injected me with serum and when I asked him whether I was badly damaged, he said it would be a long time before I was on my 'pins' again!! Certainly not a wound to the buttocks so much for the postcard!
SNAPSHOT photograph album compiled by Major S A T Coxon, 5th Norfolk Regiment of Kings Lynn, Norfolk depicting Britannia Infantry Barracks, Mousehold Heath circa mid to late 1914, approx 50 snapshot photographs in total, images include external shots of buildings, clock tower, grounds, some with small number of soldiers standing in formation in front of barracks, parade ground, gateway, two photographs of different young soldiers posing, clock tower, dogs in grounds, internal photo of rams head mounted on wall, military band, civilians at main gate looking towards Norwich, armoury with large quantity of rifles in racks and stores, horse and cart delivering goods, officers playing lawn bowls etc with Christmas Day 1914 5th (reserve) battalion Norfolk Regiment folding menu card, Angel Hotel, Peterborough loosely inserted with Capt Coxon amongst others on toast list on back + small quantity Great War period ephemera including "Entente" calendar 1917, Hills & Co Ltd, original printed wraps, stitched + souvenir postcard booklets Arras after bombardment x 2 + Battle of the Marne + "Xmas greetings from East Africa 1918" souvenir booklet published Nairobi, Swift Press circa 1918, original wraps worn etc
Herbert A*** Lake - "Cavalry Before Arras, March 1917" and "The Start For The "Sab" Cambrai, 1918", photogravure, signed and inscribed in pencil with further original pencil vignettes in the margins, 23 x 33.5cms; 9 1/4 x 13 1/4in. (a pair); together with an etching Stanley Berkeley and another by an unknown artist, depicting a scene from the Franco Prussian war. (4)
Medals & Decorations: an album of reproduction and original mainly UK medals and decorations: copy VC, GC, DFC, MC, DSC (2) & OBE, MM; along with National Service 1939-1960, 1939-45 (4) one with oak leaf, Africa star qwith N. Africa clasp, French Veterans' Somme medal with Arras clasp, Italy star, France & Germany stars (2), Defence medals 1939-45 (2) Africa stars (2), Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002, USA Europe/Africa/Mid-East, National Service medal 1939-1989,Aircrew Europe star, Belgium, Order of the Crown Knght's breast badge, also gold and silver palms, Great War merchant marine medal, Territorial Efficiency medal 1939-1947, British Forces Germany 1945-1989,French municipal Dunkirque medal, also three ribbon bars: WW2 defence & war, ww2 Defence & WW1 trio (qty).
A First World War medal group comprising the Military Cross with ribbon and inscribed to Lt W F G Radford 12th April 1917 Fampoux, together with a 1914-15 Star to 2090 Pte W F G Radford Royal Scots, The War Medal and The Victory Medal each inscribed to Capt W F G Radford, sold together with a set of four miniature dress medals and two portrait photographs of Capt Radford taken during the War, together with a large group of associated contemporary photographs. Note the medals show the progression from Private in 1914 to Captain at the end of the War. Fampoux formed part of the action in the Battle of Arras in 1917/18.
Bedford Regt - 1915 Star Trio (12590 Pte G Willmore Bedf R) Killed In Action 23 Aug 1918. Born Aldbury, Herts. On the Vis-En-Artois Memorial. Also entitled to the Military Medal L/G 9/7/1917 with the 6th Bn Bedfords, 37/Div 112/Brigade. L/G date suggests Battle of Arras April 1917, 1st Battle of the Scarpe 9/4/1917. (3)
WW1 1917 1st Bn London Regiment Casualty Group of Three Medals Awarded to “2680 PTE J. WALKER 1-LOND R” Comprising: 1914/15 Star, “PTE 1-LOND R”, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Medals loose. Private James Walker landed in Egypt on the 30th August 1915, he later transferred to the Western Front and was Killed in Action on the 9th April 1917. He is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
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