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Lot 787
Three: Private R. Wakeham, Royal Marine Light Infantry, an Armoured Car Section veteran of the Antwerp 1914 operations who was killed in action in April 1917 while serving in the 2nd R.M. Battalion, Royal Naval Division Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Pte., R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Niobe) small impressed naming; British War Medal 1914-20 (PLY. 7915 Pte., R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (PLY. 7915 Pte., R.M.L.I.) light contact marks, very fine or better (3) £300-360 Ex Barrett J Carr Collection. 129 one-clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Niobe, around 60 of them to men of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Richard Wakeham was born in Lancashire in December 1877 and enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in April 1896. Posted to the Plymouth Division, he served aboard the 1st class cruiser Niobe from December 1898 to November 1900, during which period he was among those landed at Walfisch Bay, with two Maxims and a 12-pounder field gun, in February of the latter year. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1911. Wakeham joined the R.M. Brigade in September 1914 and was one of around 50 Marines attached to the Armoured Car Section, R.N.A.S., and served in Antwerp, qualifying for the 1914 Star with clasp - the latter appears to have been issued to his sister in 1929. Sadly, however, he was killed in action on 28 April 1917, while a member of the 2nd Royal Marine Battalion, a component of the Royal Naval Division. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied service paper.
Lot 862
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private A Buist, 11th and 13th Battalions Hampshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (33361 Pte., 11/Hants. R.); British War and Victory Medals (33361 Pte., Hamps. R.) mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (3) £320-360 M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. ‘33361 Pnr. A. Buist, Hamps. R. (Wool)’. Alexander Buist jointed the Hampshire Regiment in July 1916 and in December that year was drafted to France, where he took part in many engagements. He saw action at the Battles of Ypres, Arras, Messines and Cambrai. He also played a prominent part in the retreat of 1918, and was awarded the M.M. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in rescuing comrades from a blown-in trench whilst under heavy shell-fire. He was demobilised in March 1919 and went to live at 46 Aylesbury Road, Copnor, Portsmouth. Sold with copied gazette and National Roll extracts, M.M. card and m.i.c.
Lot 984
Family group: Three: Second Lieutenant H. V. Day, 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, late 7th Battalion London Regiment, killed in action at the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917 1914-15 Star (3040 Pte., 7-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Memorial Plaque (Hubert Victor Day) Three: Private A. E. Day, 7th Battalion London Regiment, awarded the D.C.M. for the Battle of Festubert; mortally wounded at the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915 1914-15 Star (3064 Pte., 7-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3064 Pte., 7-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Eustace Day) generally extremely fine (8) £600-700 Hubert Victor Day was born on 6 July 1893 and was the second son of the Rev. John Day and Caroline Rushton Day. His father was a Wesleyan Minister and was an officiating Chaplain to the troops at Colchester. He was educated at Jersey Modern School and at the Kingswood School, Bath. He was employed as a Clerk in the Westminster Branch of the London City and Midland Bank. He joined the 7th Battalion London Regiment on 5 October 1914 and entered France on 17 March 1915. On 25 September 1915 he was severely wounded in the attack on the Double Crassier (twin mining spoilheaps near Loos) and was invalided home. This was the same attack in which his younger brother was fatally wounded. Having applied for a commission, Hubert Day was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on 26 January 1916. He underwent training at Oxford and Troon and was appointed Bombing Officer whilst at Portabello Camp. He accompanied the battalion to France in September 1916 and was later recommended for a Military Cross for his work during the Aisne Offensive. He was killed in the opening day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917, whilst leading an attack on Monchy-le-Preux. He was buried on the battlefield but his grave was lost during the later fighting. His name is therefore commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied research. Albert Eustace Day was born in Louth on 5 March 1895 and was the third son of the Rev. John Day and Caroline Rushton Day. He was educated at the Kingswood School, Bath. He was employed as a Clerk at the Guildhall, employed by the City of London Corporation. He joined the 7th Battalion London Regiment, two days after his brother, on 7 October 1914 and entered France in March 1915. He won the Distinguished Conduct Medal on 16 May 1915 during the first day of the battle of Festubert. His citation (London Gazette 5 August 1915) reads: For gallant conduct during an attack on German trenches, he rescued a man, Pte. Wyld, who was unable to extricate himself from a water course, and succeeded in bringing him to safety under heavy shellfire’. In a letter from Ross Wyld to the parents of Hubert and Eustace Day, dated ‘No.12 General Hospital, Rouen, 20-5-15’, Wyld makes it clear that both brothers had a hand in his rescue, and writes: ‘Dear Mr and Mrs Day, I am taking the liberty of writing to you, to tell you what your two sons did for me on Monday last. I got stuck in the mud of a communication trench, and could not move my feet, as I was in the mud up to my knees. I dared not stand upright, or I should have got a bullet through my head. Your two sons, Hubert and Eustace, at great risk, came to my aid, and by their help I managed to get free, and was very thankful, I can tell you. In order to understand the pluck of your lads, I must tell you that to reach me they had to cross several dangerous spots, with practically no cover whatever, and that the corner where I was stuck was bespattered every now and then with earth thrown up by shells, so near were they. The man next to me was shot in the arm because he could not keep down. So altogether I think you will agree with me that your two lads were very brave. ..’ On 25 September 1915, on the opening day of the Battle of Loos, Private Eustace Day was mortally wounded whilst taking part in the attack on the Double Crassier. He succumbed to his wounds on the following day, dying at the 6th London Field Ambulance Post. He was buried in the Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery. Sold with copied research.
Lot 1039
Pair: Private J. Duncan, Highland Light Infantry, killed in action, 19 December 1914 British War and Victory Medals (11335 Pte., H.L.I.) B.W.M. suspension a little slack; Memorial Plaque (John Duncan) good very fine (3) £200-240 John Duncan was born in and enlisted at Aberdeen. Serving with the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 19 December 1914. He was buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, situated between Arras and Bethune.
Lot 262
British War Medal 1914-20 (S. Lt. N. Nesbitt, R.N.V.R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lt. P. E. R. Hardy, R.M.) good very fine and better (2) £100-150 Sub-Lieutenant Norman Nesbitt, Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, was killed in action on 21 August 1918, aged 28 years. He was buried in the Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France. He was the son of the Rev. J. C. Nesbitt, M.A. and Marianne Nesbitt of Elloughton, Brough, East Yorkshire. 2nd Lieutenant Philip Ernest Radford Hardy, 2nd R.M. Battalion, Royal Naval Division, was killed in action on 28 April 1917, aged 22 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the son of William James and Emily Hardy of 9 Langport Road, Weston-super-Mare. .
Lot 393
MICHELIN & SIE, 4 ttls: YPRES AND THE BATTLESOF YPRES, 1919, 1st edn, orig cl, LILLE BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR, 1919, orig wraps, ARRAS LENS-DOUAI AND THE BATTLES OF ARTOIS, nd, orig wraps, THE SOMME VOLUME II THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1918) AMIENS-MONTDIDIER-COMPIEGNE, nd, orig wraps (4)
Lot 843
1914-15 Star (5) (Y-379 Pte. W. Collier, K.R. Rif. C.; A-1134 Pte. J. Felton, K.R. Rif. C.; A-1500 L. Cpl. G. E. Matthews, K.R. Rif. C.; R-1182 Cpl. D. Roberts, K.R. Rif. C.; A-234 Pte. R. Spilsbury, K.R. Rif. C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (R-7817 Pte. T. Reynolds, K.R. Rif. C) last with contact marks, very fine and better (6) £100-140 George Edwin Matthews was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he died of wounds on 10 February 1916. The husband of L. M. Matthews, of Emily Street, Birmingham; he was buried in the Birmingham (Lodge Hill) Cemetery. dick Roberts was born in and enlisted at Warrington. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he was killed in action on 21 September 1915, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery. He was the son of Joseph and Martha Roberts of Warrington and the husband of Annie Roberts of 6 School Street, Warrington. roland Spilsbury was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he died of wounds on 3 May 1917. having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. thomas Reynolds was born and lived in Belbroughton, Stourbridge and enlisted at Kidderminster. Serving with the 11th battalion K.R.R.C., he was killed in action on 20 September 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of Mrs Sarah Ann Reynolds of 80 Windsor Road, Stirchley, Birmingham. £100-£140
Lot 962
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Serjeant R. Dooley, Royal Field Artillery, awarded for an action near St. Quentin, 21 March 1918 distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (L-10081 Sjt., A.149/Bde. R.F.A.) very fine £500-600 D.C.M. London Gazette 3 September 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when the enemy reached the gun positions he immediately organised a party with rifles and covered the withdrawal of the detachments. He himself covering the withdrawal of his party. Later, he went out by himself on a flank and held up the enemy, enabling some officers and men who had been cut off to withdraw to safety’. 21 March 1918 was the first day of the great German offensive ‘Operation Michael’ the main weight of the attack was between Arras and a few miles South of St Quentin. The new German infiltration (‘Hutier’) tactics meant that small groups of infantry using bombs and machine guns avoided Allied strong points and continued to press forward wherever there was an opportunity. Serjeant Dooley earned his D.C.M. for his gallantry in this very confusing and dangerous situation. £500-£600
Lot 967
Three: Second Lieutenant G. H. Merrikin, 2nd Battalion London Regiment, who was killed in action, 27 August 1918 1914-15 Star (42178 Pte., R.A.M.C.), surname spelt ‘Merriken’; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) extremely fine (3) £300-350 George Holden Merrikin was born in the Parish of St Mary, Louth, Lincolnshire in 1882. His Father was a Church of England Rector and his Mother was Frances Merrikin. He was educated privately at Bedford House School, Bedford and then at Oxford University where he obtained his B.A. in 1901 and M.A. in 1904. Following Oxford he went to the Ely Theological College where he qualified as a Clerk in Holy Orders. After being ordained he became Chaplain at Wellingborough School, then Curate at Dulwich College and finally the Preceptor of Bristol Cathedral. on 19 October 1914, aged 32 years and 240 days, he enlisted at Deptford into the R.A.M.C. as a Private. At the time of his enlistment he was living at The Chantry, Westbourne, Emsworth Hampshire. As a Private he served for 92 days in England and then two years six days in France. On 5 March 1917 he returned to England and was posted first to 5 T.R.B. in St Albans and then E Company, R.A.M.C. Blackpool. At this time he applied for an appointment as a Chaplain but this was refused and on 17 December 1917 he was commissioned into the 1/2nd London Regiment. At that time the 1/2nd London Regiment as part of 169 Brigade 56th Division were reorganising after the 1st Battle of Arras and in April 1918 2nd Lieutenant G H Merrikin joined as reinforcement with seven other 2nd Lieutenants. by 25 August the Battalion were committed to the 2nd Battle of Arras. The ‘Regimental History of the 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)’ describes the death of George Holden Merrikin on the afternoon of 27 August 1918 - ‘The 1/2nd Londons were ordered to establish posts in Fooley Trench opposite their front. With this object two platoons each from ‘A’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ Companies formed up outside the uncut and very thick wire of Summit Trench and, at 2.45 am on the 27th, made a stealth attack on Fooley Trench. The trench was still occupied by the enemy in strength and heavy machine gun fire from it as well as from the Hindenburg Line and from the direction of Croisilles held up the attackers. A section of ‘A’ Company under Sgt Ayton succeeded in getting within measurable distance of its objective, but in its gallant effort was wiped out to a man. Although the line of Fooley Trench was not made good, a number of posts were firmly established in advance of Summit Trench.’ The Battalion suffered in all 43 casualties and many of the wounded were lying in No Mans Land. The Regimental History records that - ‘2nd Lieut Merrikin at once volunteered to take out a party to bring them in and, while gallantly carrying out this task, was killed by machine-gun fire.’ Aged 40 at the time of his death, he was buried in Summit Trench Cemetery, Croisilles - near the site of Summit Trench. He was the husband of Mrs Norah Louise Merrikin then living at 42 Herberton Road, West Southbourne Bournemouth, Hampshire. Sold with original Officers’ Relatives War Report, copied service papers, m.i.c., and modern photograph of his grave. £300-£350
Lot 974
Pair: Captain K. S. Howard, Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in action, 6 October 1918 british War and Victory Medals (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (2) £160-200 Kenneth Salway Howard was born in Bushbury, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire on14 December 1879. He was educated at Gorsebrook House, Bushbury; Wolverhampton Grammar School, Haverford West and Durham University. After leaving University he became an Assistant Master at the Royal School, Armagh, Northern Ireland and then a Superintendent of the Irish Intermediate Education Board. in August 1914 he was serving in camp at Kempton Park, Sunbury as a Private in ‘A’ Company of the 79th Public Schools Battalion, 16th Middlesex Regiment. With the onset of war he volunteered for the Army and on 19 August 1914 applied for a commission. He was attested on 5 September 1914 and continued to serve in the Public Schools Battalion. On 17 May 1915 he was commissioned into the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion of the Royal Sherwood Foresters. he served at home until 1 September 1918 when he joined the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters in France. On the night of 6/7 October during the 2nd Battle of Arras, the Germans launched a counter attack on the Rouvroy Fresnes Line at Oppi. In a fierce fight the counter attack was repulsed but Captain Kenneth Salway Howard was killed. He was buried in Roclincourt Military Cemetery. Sold with copied service papers, m.i.c., a modern photograph of his grave and other research. £160-£200
Lot 992
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. E. M. Lynch-Staunton) nearly very fine £40-50 Eric Margrave Lynch-Staunton was born in Addleston, Surrey on 15 July 1897. After leaving School he worked as a ‘L.C.C. Tramways Clerk’ but as soon as he was eighteen he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in London and on 16 August 1915 became 1659 Private E.M. Lynch-Staunton. He was appointed to a commission in the 4/3rd London Regiment on 30 December 1915. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 September 1916 and was posted to the 1/3rd London Regiment. He was killed in action on 9 May 1917, aged 19 years. Having no known grave, his name was commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. £40-£50
Lot 994
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. A. L. Salter) very fine £40-50 Albert Leonard Salter was born in Bath on 2 November 1894 and was educated at Bath Technical and City Secondary School. Employed as a Clerk in the Rates Department, in Bath Town Hall, he enlisted into Army Ordnance Corps on 27 October 1915. on 30 October 1917 he was granted a commission in the 3rd Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Special Reserve), but by 21 March 1918 he was attached to the 2/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. On that date the Germans launched their great ‘Spring Offensive’. The 2/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment was one of the battalions in the Hirondelle Valley fighting desperately around Bullecourt. Some units were completely overrun and destroyed, others fought stubbornly to save the village. The offensive lasted a month and the total British casualties were 177,739 killed, wounded and missing. One of those reported missing (later killed in action) was 2nd Lieutenant Salter. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied service papers, including those from his father requesting further information. £40-£50
Lot 1089
A group of three Great War Medals awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 H. Duckers, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, who was awarded the D.C.M. in 1914 and who died of wounds, 13 May 1917 1914 Star, with clasp (7688 C.S. Mjr., 2/Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (7688 W.O. Cl.2, Lan. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Harry Duckers); together with a copy Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (7688 C.S.M., 2 Lanc. Fus.) plaque worn through polishing; medals good very fine (5) £500-600 D.C.M. London Gazette 11 November 1914. ‘For excellent handling of his platoon during the action at Meterin on October 13, and for consistent good work in various engagements’. harry Duckers was born in Whitefield, Lancashire and enlisted at Manchester. Serving as a Serjeant-Major with the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 26 August 1914. Duckers won the D.C.M. for his excellent handling of his platoon during the action at Meterin, to the east of Hazebrouck, near the Belgian border on 13 October 1914. As a Company Sergeant Major serving with the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, he died of wounds on 13 May 1917. He was buried in St. Nicolas British Cemetery, near Arras. sold with Queen Mary’s Christmas Tin lid; damaged photograph of the recipient; two Lancashire Fusilier badges; copy Commemorative Scroll and Memorial Plaque enclosure, all these mounted on a board with the medals for display. Also with copied research including extract from regimental history in which Duckers is mentioned and m.i.c. £500-£600
Lot 1114
An exceedingly well-documented and poignant Great War group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. H. Blades, The Rifle Brigade, late Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), who was killed in action in May 1917 1914-15 Star (4130 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), in their card forwarding boxes and registered envelope, virtually as issued (3) £2000-3000 William Henry ‘Harry’ Blades was born in September 1897 and was employed as a clerk at a bank in Kensington on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Having then considered the merits of whether to apply for a commission, and indeed which regiment to join, he attested in the Honourable Artillery Company (H.A.C.) in August 1915, and was embarked for France as a Private in ‘C’ Company, 3rd H.A.C. Infantry Battalion, at the end of the year. For the first few months his unit was employed on garrison duty at St. Omer, but by the summer of 1916, his letters home reveal service of a more active nature on the Somme: ‘We are getting r ady to spend the next few days in a manner not at all comfortable and free from care. I never knew I was so fond of life until recently, when there seemed a chance of losing it ... It seems absolutely absurd to think so many men should be formed up along the line trying to kill each other; and the sun shining overhead, birds singing and green woods in the distance ... The trench mortars are one of the most worrying inventions. They are fired from the trenches, and go high up into the air, dropping somewhere near the trench. You can see them dropping and have to run up and down dodging them, which might be quite interesting if the things didn’t explode with such force.’ Shortly after these operations, Blades applied for a commission and was despatched to a Cadet School, but fell ill with jaundice. It was not, therefore, until February 1917 that he was finally appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion of his favoured regiment - the Rifle Brigade. And towards the end of the following month, his unit moved up to the front line: ‘Things are not so pleasant now; and in a few hours we shall be in the trenches, some of the many Fritz has presented us with. If they are the same as the villages he has left, he can keep them. I have just seen one of them, and it is as desolate a sight as one can imagine - not a vestige of a building - just a gate or railings here and there ... It is awfully noisy here ... This morning we had a unique and rather touching sight of an aeroplane catching fire. The pilot lived to reach the ground, but gradually the flames gained until the plane shrivelled up and dropped. We could see the pilot throw himself out ... My respect for the Church of England has gone; and with the influence of the War, I have become materialistic - everything is chance. If you and a shell arrive at the same place together, that is chance.’ At long last, for he had not been home to Gateshead since he had been embarked for France at the end of 1915, Blades was given 10 days leave at Easter 1917 - ‘I am glad I had eave,’ he wrote on returning to his unit, ‘It won’t be quite so bad now I have seen everybody I wanted to.’ Just a few days later, on 3 May, he led his men over the top in a dawn attack near Cheresy. On the 7th, his Company Commander, Captain W. A. Crebbin, wrote to his father: ‘It is with great regret that I have to inform you that your son is wounded and missing. Much as I should like to, I’m afraid I can’t give you any hope for his safety. The Battalion went into action on May 3rd and shortly after we advanced your son was wounded: one of my stretcher bearers bound up his wounds but the stretcher bearer informed me that Blades had been grievously wounded and that there was very little chance of his living. the enemy counter attacked us heavily after our advance and we had to return to our original line and we were unable to get further information concerning your son. To be quite candid, though I hate being so, I’m afraid it is hoping against hope to think otherwise than that he has been killed in action. It is the best death that we are allowed out here, to fall at the head of one’s men; but it is those at home who have the biggest part of the war to bear, and their’s is the aftermath to suffer. i was your son’s Company Officer and though I have only taken over the Company recently, I know his loss will be greatly felt. His men looked up to him, loved him and would have done anything for him. His will be a great loss to the company. if I hear anything further concerning Blades I will contact you immediately, but in any case if there is any way in which I can help you, please don’t hesitate to write. I will do my best.’ Harry Blades has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was 21 years old. in addition to the archive described below, his awards are also sold with a wonderful biography of some 30,000 words, written by his sister, in which she draws upon some of his correspondence, in addition to many other family sources. Perhaps most moving of all is her account of the occasion that her brother - on his last leave home - confessed that he would never return: ‘He sought her out in the drawing room, where she was sitting alone in the twilight in front of a glowing fire. He walked round the back of the settee and put his hand on her shoulder. As she clasped it in her own, he said slowly and distinctly, ‘I know that I won’t come back. I want you to remember me and tell your children about me.’ The girl felt a lump rise in her throat and the hot tears well up in her eyes. She knew if she tried to speak she would burst into tears, and she must not do that at all costs. She clung to his hand and inclined her head in reply. Her brother waited for a few seconds, and then abruptly strode out of the room ... She felt she had somehow failed him in his hour of need, and that she ought to have been able to give him some words of comfort; but he had spoken with such grave conviction that no words of hers could have dispelled his gloom.’ It was not until September 1984 that she finally made the pilgrimage o see his name on the Arras Memorial. the Archive: (a) An impressive run of postcards, nearly 60, the whole to his family in Gateshead in the period 1913-15, written prior to his volunteering, and detailing his activities in London, not least many visits to the opera, art exhibitions and museums; together with three letters from the same period, with W. Kensington stamp marks, these dated 2 December 1914, 18 July and 21 July 1915. (b) His enlistment form on joining the H.A.C. (Infantry) on 4 August 1915; his Soldiers’ Pay Book (Active Service), with entries ‘In the Field’ covering the period August 1915 to February 1917; his related discharge form on obtaining a commission and official notification for his appointment to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, dated 18 February 1918; together with some miscellaneous souvenirs from his time in France, among them a cinema programme from Rouen Camp, December 1915, a Christmas dinner menu 1916, signed by four Rifle Brigade officers, and detailed annotated maps of trenches and positions, both dating from January 1917, when he was attending a Cadet School for his commission. (c) A quantity of letters home from the H.A.C. Training Camp at Richmond (9), dated between August 1915 and November 1915, and other examples sent from Kensington and Bisley in the same period. (d) A superb run of letters home from France, approximately 60, covering the period December 1915 right through until his death in action in 1917, most of them in ‘On Active Service’ green envelopes and similarly bearing ‘Passed by Field Censor’ stamps, together with a silk embroidered H.A.C. postcard and the occasional field postcard, and, most poignantly, the telegram he sent home reporting his E.T.A. at Gateshead on his last leave, dated 2 April 1917, his last lett
Lot 1225
Pair: 2nd Lieutenant D. C. Collier, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action while serving in No. 56 Squadron in August 1918 british War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.A.F.), very fine or better (2) £250-300 Douglas Charles Collier was born in September 1899, the son of Sidney Collier of Bournemouth, and was educated at Cheltenham College 1914-17. Commencing pilot training in the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough in September of the latter year, he gained his ‘Wings’ and was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1918, following which he joined No. 56 Squadron, commanded by Major E. L. S. H. Gilchrist, M.C., D.F.C., flying S.E. 5s out of Valheureux. Sadly, however, he was killed in action over Barastre on a low-level bombing mission on 24 August 1918, his S.E. 5a (D6121) being seen to fall out of control. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial. £250-£300
Lot 1243
Pair: Private T. Theobald, 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade british War and Victory Medals (S-12013 Pte., Rif. Brig.); together with Memorial Plaque (Thomas Theobald) extremely fine (3) £80-100 Thomas Theobald was born in Peckham, Surrey and lived and enlisted at Southend-on-Sea. Serving with the 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade, he was killed in action on 27 February 1917. He was buried in the Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France. Sold with copy of m.i.c. which shows additional entitlement to 1914-15 Star. £80-£100
Lot 1442
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M., M.M. pair awarded to Lance-Corporal Arthur Hutton, Durham Light Infantry distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (15347 L. Cpl., M.M., 2/Durh. L.I.), suspension rod loose; Military Medal, G.V.R. (15347 Pte., 10/Durh. L.I.) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine (2) £900-1100 D.C.M. London Gazette 30 October 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in rushing and capturing a post containing six of the enemy, thus allowing the company to continue its advance. Later, with his company commander, two machine guns in action were located. They worked round and rushed them, the gunners surrendering’. m.M. London Gazette 12 March 1917. arthur Hutton came from Crook, Co. Durham. Serving with the Durham Light Infantry, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 May 1915. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery whilst serving with the 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in the vicinity of Arras. On 6 January 1917 a raid was carried out upon the German lines, in the hard fighting that followed, casualties to the battalion amounted to 2 officers wounded and 44 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. For the action, one M.C. (to 2nd Lieutenant A. G. Bell) and 6 M.M.’s (including one to Hutton) were awarded. He was subsequently awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion. Sold with copied research including gazette extracts and m.i.c. £900-£1100
Lot 711
Crickhowell Services Rendered Medal 1914-18, obv. coat-of-arms, inscribed, ‘Capt. P. A. Hill’, rev. Britannia, with shield, holding forth a wreath, 29mm., silver, good very fine £70-90 ex Spencer Collection, D.N.W. 16 December 2003, lot 1169. philip Aubrey Hill was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, on 13 December 1873. Educated at Uppingham and Caius College, Cambridge, he was employed as a Schoolmaster. Having served in the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Brecknock Territorial Reserve Battalion on 15 September 1914. Captain Philip Aubrey Hill, attached 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 22 January 1917. he was killed in action on 23 April 1917, aged 43 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the son of Dr. P. E. Hill of Latham House, Crickhowell, Brecknockshire and husband of Ethel G. Hill of Crossway Cottage, Four Oaks, Warwickshire. in The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914-1918, by C. T. Atkinson, it was reported that in the action at Monchy le Preux, ‘.... Captain Hill, who though wounded in the advance had remained with his company, was now shot by a sniper and killed, and many other casualties occured. Sold with copied research including service papers, m.i.c. and war diary extracts. £70-£90
Lot 730
Great War Tribute Medal, obv. crossed oil can and spanner, ;718’ ‘Somme Arras Ypres 1916-1919’, rev. ‘France Belgium Germany’, and inscribed, ‘T. H. Pickett’, 22mm., 5.60g., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, ring suspension, nearly very fine £60-80 private Thomas H. Pickett, Royal Army Service Corps, attached M.T. 1st Indian Army G.H.Q., died on 24 January 1919. He was buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery. £60-£80
Lot 781
Pair: Private E. P. Bingle, West Yorkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (20827 Pte., W. York. R.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Percy Bingle), in card envelope, extremely fine (3) £100-140 Edward Percy Bingle was born in Brickfield, Sussex and enlisted at Chichester. He served initially as Private M/300788 in the A.S.C. Serving with the 12th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 12 December 1917, aged 19 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the foster son of Mrs J. Marchant of 97 New England Road, Haywards Heath. Sold with named lids of medal card boxes of issue.
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Pair: Private A. Cuthbertson, Royal Scots Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (23634 Pte., R.S. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (2) £60-80 Allan Cuthbertson was born in Dumfries and living in Govan, enlisted at Glasgow. Serving in the 6th/7th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 9 April 1917. He was buried in the St. Catherine British Cemetery, Arras. Sold with a modern photograph of his gravestone.
Lot 788
Pair: Private T. D. Saunders, Royal Sussex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (12891 Pte., R. Suss. R.) 1914-15 Star (17734 Pte. J. W. Hempel, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (A. E. Bache, Fmn., M.F.A.; 2 Lieut. H. L. Hall; 9381 Pte. S. H. Booth, R. Ir. Rif.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (12907 C. Sjt. W. Dauble, Essex R.; 26489 Pte. T. C. Beching, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (865736 Pte. C. G. Thorne, A.S.C.) good very fine and better (9) £100-140 James William Hempel was born in Yarmouth, Norfolk, and living in Norwich, he enlisted at Battersea. Surrey. Serving with the 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, he was killed in action on 3 May 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Fireman Albert Edward Bache, Mercantile Marine Reserve, was killed in action on 20 January 1918, when the armed boarding steamer Louvain was torpedoed and sunk off Mudros, by the U.C.22. Aged 17 years, he was the son of Albert Edward and Mary Ellen Bache of 386A Mill Street, Liverpool. 2 Lieut. H. L. Hall, possibly 2nd Lieutenant Henry Lewes Hall. M.M., attached 10th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action 30 November 1917. Stanley Harris Booth was born in Mussone, East India and enlisted at Burma. Serving in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 16 July 1915. He was buried in Y farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier. Thomas Charles Beeching lived at Barnsbury, Middlesex and enlisted at Holloway. Serving with the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, he was killed in action in Salonika, 9 May 1917, aged 25 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial. He was the son of Mrs G. Beeching of Tottenham, London and husband of Mrs C. Beard (formerly Beeching) of 11 Rhodes Street, Barnsbury, London.
Lot 853
A fine Great War Sanctuary Wood M.C. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant E. W. F. Hammond, Honourable Artillery Company Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (676 L. Cpl., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2. Lieut.); memorial plaque (Ernest William Frost Hammond) nearly extremely fine or better (5) £2000-2500 M.C. London Gazette 29 October 1915 For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a bomb fight at Sanctuary Wood on 30 September 1915. Although severely wounded in the right side during the afternoon and unable to use his right arm, he remained at the front using his left arm till after nightfall, when his wound compelled him to retire. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916. Ernest William Frost Hammond was killed in action at Bullecourt on 3 May 1917, whilst serving with the Honourable Artillery Company. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Sold with 14 pages copied from recipients National Archives correspondence file and further copied research detail.
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A good Great War Western front M.C. group of seven awarded to Second Lieutenant A. Searies, Suffolk Regiment, formerly Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was three times wounded in action and subsequently awarded an R.V.M. for services at Windsor Castle with the Berkshire Constabulary Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed Presented to A. Searies, Jan. 14th 1920; 1914-15 Star (10543 Pte., R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); DefenceMedal 1939-45; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., type 2, silver; Police long Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sergt. Alfred Series) contact wear and polishing to first four medals, therefore about nearly very fine, otherwise very fine or better (7) £1200-1500 M.C. London Gazette 30 July 1919 On 28 September 1918 he handled his platoon with great skill and determination. On encountering an enemy machine gun below Spoil Bank he crept up the bank and bombed the enemy from above, whilst his rifle grenade section advanced toward the enemy. The entire enemy machine gun crew were killed. Later, he accounted for two more machine guns and killed or captured the teams. He showed splendid courage and determination, and set a magnificent example to those with him. R.V.M. London Gazette 1 January 1951 (For services with the Berkshire Constabulary on duty at Windsor Castle, presented by King George VI at Windsor Castle on 17 February 1951). Sold with 20 pages of copied service detail from his National Archives correspondence file, confirming that he was wounded on thee occasions: Shrapnel wound to right forehead and scalp, 3 July 1916 on the Somme; gunshot wound to left thigh, 20 April 1917 at Arras; and gunshot wound to hand and face, 16 October 1918.
Lot 863
A Great War M.C. pair awarded to Second Lieutenant C. G. Ross, Royal Scots, killed in action, 23 April 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut.); together with a British War Medal 1914-20 (.... Warren, A.O.C.), naming mostly erased on last, first and last with some contact marks, very fine and better (3) £450-500 M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1917. 2nd Lt. Cecil Goodall Ross, R. Scots, Spec. Res. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed the greatest skill and detirmination when commanding his battery. His co-operation with the infantry and total disregard for personal safety contributed greatly to the success of the advance. Cecil Goodall Ross was the son of John Grant Ross and Elsie Goodall Ross of Montreal House, Perth. He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh and Trinity College, Oxford. Serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots, he was killed in action during the Arras Offensive, on 23 April 1917, aged 20 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
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A good Second World War Fall of France 1940 D.C.M. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class III J. H. Scanlon, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (4264033 W.O. Cl. III J. H. Scanlon, R. Northd. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, together with related sporting prize medals (2), silver, one named and dated 1928-29, and three regimental badges, extremely fine (11) £3000-3500 D.C.M. London Gazette 20 December 1940. The original recommendation states: As Platoon Commander, he showed unquestionable courage, bravery and leadership during operations from Deval to Dunkirk, and particularly in the defence of Arras, where, by his own conduct, he set his men an example and encouraged them under enemy fire and aerial bombardment. Joseph Hughes Scanlon was serving as a Platoon Sergeant-Major in A Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, at the time of the above cited deeds, and was subsequently granted an Emergency Commission as a Lieutenant in the Reconnaissance Corps in January 1941. The 8th Battalions war diary describes in detail the desperate defence of Arras, and the units subsequent retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk, where its survivors were embarked on the last day of May. Scanlon and A Company were allocated to the defence of the east perimeter of the town, where they would have undergone severe dive-bombing and machine-gun attacks from the air during the hours of daylight. By the 22 May the town was completely surrounded, and orders were received for the Battalion to make a breakout, Scanlon joining "Group III" - luckily, as a result of a thick morning mist, most were able to escape the attention of enemy machine-gun posts, a brief respite in which it would appear Scanlons group stopped to demolish a bridge. As per an order received by the Battalion back in England on 22 June 1940, he was awarded an immediate D.C.M., and the following day at Church Parade, he received the ribbon of his decoration from the hands of Major-General Herbert, the Divisional Commander. Sold with two original letters, both from officers congratulating him on the award of his D.C.M., one of which, from Captain W. F. H. Cox of the Rifle Brigade, states: A few lines to send you my heartiest congratulations on your magnificent work when over in France with the B.E.F. I was delighted to read of your decoration with the D.C.M. in todays papers, and the report in The Times was fine. In view of the lack of leadership by certain others, which to us was not at all surprising, A Company of the 8th R.N.F. are, I am sure, very proud of you and I am mighty glad you were with them. I am very distressed at the loss of my old C.O. and Adjutant, Colonel Clarke, and Major Seth-Smith, both of whom were fine and gallant gentlemen. Was not pleased to meet in the B.E.F. Camp here my old colleague, Mr. Charles Mitchell, and with him Mr. Wilson and Captain Nicholson. If not before, I shall look forward to meeting you again in the victory march through Berlin ...
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A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal F. C. Upton, 63rd Royal Naval Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (207461 Cpl. F. C. Upton, 63/R.N.D.S. Coy. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (207461 Cpl. F. C. Upton, R.E.) good very fine (3) £800-1000 M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918 (France). Frederick Charles Upton died of wounds in France on 27 September 1918, aged 27. He was the son of William and Jane Upton, of Deal, and husband of Annie Esther Louisa Upton, also of Deal. He is buried in Ecoust-St. Mein British Cemetery, near Arras. The village of Ecoust-St. Mein was taken by the 8th/9th Devons in a blizzard on 2 April 1917, lost on 21 March 1918, and retaken at the end of August by the 3rd Division.
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A Great War Western Front M.M. pair awarded to Serjeant J. Nicholls, Worcestershire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (5157 Sjt., 4/Worc. R.); Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (5157 Corpl., Worcester. Regt.) second with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine; first good very fine (2) £300-350 M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916. Joseph Nicholls was born in Dudley, Worcestershire and enlisted into the Worcestershire Regiment in March 1893 and was to remain with them for the rest of his life. He served in South Africa where he gained the QSA and two clasps. In 1903 the Battalion went to Malta, in 1905 to India and in 1909 to Burma. Nicholls was present when the 4th Battalion was stationed at Bareilly, and took part in the Grand Parade in Delhi to mark the visit of King George V. For this participation he was awarded the Delhi Durbar Medal. After the tour in Burma the Battalion returned to England on 1 February 1915 ready for action in the First World War. The 4th Battalion left Avonmouth on 21 March 1915 as part of 88th Brigade, 29th Division. After passing through Egypt the Battalion, including Nicholls, arrived at Gallipoli on 24 April 1915 and went ashore under heavy fire. The battalion at that time consisted of 29 officers and 931 other ranks. Part of X Company reached the River Clyde and attempted to land at V Beach, but most were killed or wounded. The remainder of the Battalion landed on W Beach and formed up with Z and Y Companies in front, and X and Y Companies in support. They then moved forward using the bayonet to clear the enemy from Hill 138. In the advance towards Krithia, the Battalion again launched a bayonet charge and by the end of April had suffered 35 killed, 199 wounded and 74 missing. During May the Battalion continuously fought along the firing line between the Krithia Nullah and Gully Ravine and by the end of the month their strength was reduced to 11 officers and 483 other ranks. In June and July the Battalion took part in the Third Battle of Krithia and during this time Lieutenant H. James earned his VC for outstanding courage in defence and leading attacks. From July to December the Battalion was rarely out of action. In September they suffered heavily at Sulva Bay and amongst those killed was Lieutenant James shot by a sniper. In October all 20 officers in the Battalion were Second Lieutenants and it was not till the 26th that Captain Kerans took command of the Battalion. On the night of 7/8 January 1916 the Battalion embarked from W Beach and sailed back to Egypt. They had been in action from the beginning of the campaign to the very end and had lost 64 officers and 1550 other ranks killed, wounded or died from other causes. A total of 1614 dead. From Egypt the Battalion was posted to France, arriving at Marseilles on 20 March 1916, still part of 88 Brigade, 29th Division. In France/Flanders they fought in every major battle until the 11th November 1918, including the Somme from 1 July to the 18 November 1916, then at Albert, Le Transloy, Arras, Scarpe, Ypres 1917, Langemarck, Polcappelle, Cambrai, Estaires, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Ypres 1918 and finally at Courtrai in October 1918. For his services in France, Nicholls was awarded the Military Medal. Company Sergeant-Major Joseph Nicholls died on 30 January 1919, aged 38 years, and was buried at the Holy Trinity Church, Amblecote. He was the son of Mrs May Nicolls who lived at 36 High Street, Amblecote. Sold with copied research.
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Eldgar Holloway b.1914- Self portrait of the artist at work; etching with aquatint, signed, numbered 14/50 and dated 71 in pencil, 20x15cm: Marcel Augis early 20th century- "Arras l'Hotel de Ville apres le bombardement 1914 1917"; hand-coloured etching with aquatint, signed and inscribed in pencil, 18.5x12.8cm: together with five other similar etchings by the same hand, all depicting scenes from The Great War and a further two signed etchings by further different hands, (9) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
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Approximately 270 topographical and other press photographs, including the British Expeditionary Force at Boulogne, undated; Covent Garden Market, 1936; a London tram crash, 1946; a German barrel-organ man at Iserlohn, 1946; the Rue Gambetta, Arras, undated; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle crossing the Athabaska River, undated; crowds at Herald Square, New York, undated; Newton Abbot decorated for a royal visit, 1952; the newly built Severn Bridge, 1966; cars crossing the frozen River Elbe near Geesthacht, 1963; trug-making at Hurstmonceux, Sussex, 1965; New Zealand troops fighting at Cassino, Italy, undated; the Eighth Army breaking through the Gabes Gap, 1943, and others, varying sizes, (approximately 10 percent with annotations and/or crop-lines in ink).
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, Queen Anne, The Capture of Douay, Continental Silver Medal, 1710, unsigned, the sun eclipsed by the globe, DEFECTVM LVMINE VIDIT, rev two soldiers play dice, holding counter marked DOVAY, others marked MONS, RUSEL, DORNIC, ARRAS and PARIS, 44mm (MI 371/216; vL V, 165). Extremely fine.
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Thomas (Edward). Poems by Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway"), 1st ed., Selwyn & Blount, 1917, portrait of Thomas from a photograph by Duncan Williams, slight spotting, orig. boards, a little soiled, rubbed at extremities, printed paper label chipped, edges untrimmed, 8vo Inscribed in pencil "Ivy Constance Ransome. October 1917" on the front free endpaper. "Poems" was published on 10 October 1917, and was reprinted in the following month. Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917. Before embarking for France in January 1917, Thomas spent his last night in England at the Ransome's home at Manor Farm, Hatch, near Tisbury, where Ivy was taking care of the Thomas's younger daughter Myfanwy, known as "Baba", Arthur Ransome being in Russia at the time. The author's first book of poems. Hayward 334. (1)
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* WWI - French Prisoner of War. A group of approx. eighty-five autograph letters signed by Ernest Rokeby Collins, 8th July 1914 to 12 November 1918, the majority written in pencil to his mother or father, the majority written while held as a prisoner of war by the Germans, It is a month tomorrow since I was hit early on in the day after only about four hours fighting. We are fighting a series of rear guard actions & my company have to be so placed as to engage the enemy at daylight. At about 9am as I was getting rather hardpressed I decided to retire through the supports & take up another position to cover them. I got all my wounded away except the very serious ones whom I was bound to leave behind, and left the position last getting some 300 yards clear & over a slope which hid me from the enemy, but over which bullets & shells were passing. As luck would have it just as I thought I was safe I was struck in the right arm with a bullet; it felt as though I had been hit with a sledge-hammer & I was twisted half round and fell backwards towards the floor ... (25th September 1914), a couple typed including one (3rd October 1917), giving thanks for the congratulations on receiving the Military Cross, I can only say what I did was a necessity & in the course of my duty at the time, during the Battle of Arras, and
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Sweetheart brooches: enamelled RAF brooches, one stamped 9ct gold and one base metal, gold faced silver rifle brooches, one 'Cheshire' and one 'The Royal Scots', enamelled 'The King's' brooch, pin missing and enamelled "silver" 'Arras' brooch, plus 'wound' badge, small 'Tank Reg.' badge and enamelled 'ACC' medal, mainly good condition, unless stated (9)
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EGYPT AND GALLIPOLI. Papers of Brigadier General Godfrey Matthews CB CMG, comprising a large quantity of letters to and from him; many to his wife, together with sundry photographs relating to service in Egypt and the Sudan. General Matthews, a marine officer, was for much of his service seconded to the Egyptian army and held various appointments in the Sudan, finishing as Commandant of the Military district of Khartoum, 1910-1913. Subsequently he rejoined the Marines, being appointed to command the Plymouth Battalion of the Royal Naval Division in the assault on the Y beach at Gallipoli. There are five letters to his wife from Gallipoli, three before the landing, 19-25 March 1915, and two 7 and 9 September written from a field hospital. Also included is a battlefield note addressed to Matthews giving the Turkish positions (‘They appear to be digging in’). The first letters give a somewhat guarded account of the build up to the landings. ‘The gathering of the forces proceeds, it will take quite a time... more than that I cannot say’. ‘The Australians are magnificent men, well commanded and well trained’. The letters from the field hospital express a rather introspective view on life. He regrets that he ever left the Egyptian army and considers that he should have a brigade. He is critical of the conduct of the campaign, in particular by those in authority. ‘The more people who arrive from England the greater the number who know of the folly of Winston Churchill in his creating this force’. He determines not to return to duty until the doctors say he can. Probably sentiments shared by many others in the campaign. Matthews did, however, get his brigade only to die of wounds at the Battle of Arras in 1917. Generally in sound condition. (Storage Box).
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A George III silver round mustard pot of compressed form the fluted body with foliate garland rim ‘c’ scroll handle and the hinghed lid with spirial scroll finial later engraved ‘Presented to the Officers of the 99th (Bucks & Berks) Yeomanry Field Brigade Royal Artillery by Sir Everard Paunceford Duncombe Aug 1925’ London 1818 maker’s mark obscured 5.5cm high 7 oz In 1921 the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars amalgamated with the Berkshire Yeomanry to become the 99th Bucks and Berks Brigade RFA with regimental headquarters at Aylesbury. The Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars had won battle honours during the First World War at Sulva Scimitar Hill Gallipoli in 1915 Nwbi Samwil in Palestine in 1917-1918 and at both Arras and Ypres in France amongst other honours in 1918
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A small display of aircraft fragments, etc, with hand written identification labels, including pieces of Zeppelin SL11 and L33; a pair of WWI German pom pom shells, dated 1918, and engraved on the brass cases "Mons 1918" and "Arras 1918", a spelter figure of a Japanese warrior on horseback, and another of a kneeling Japanese warrior. Average GC
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Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph Letter Signed ('Edward Thomas'), High Beech, [Loughton, Essex], Christmas [1916], to Jo [Joseph Jefferson Farjeon], 'I thought you hated butchery [The War; the Farjeons were consceintious objectors]. Yet you do everything to make a butcher's life tolerable - with Craven mixture [pipe tobacco]. It is very inconsistent and very kind of you ... I wish I could come over to Wembley to say it. But I have to be out on Romney Marsh, not Hackney Marsh, tomorrow', concluding with thanks for the beautiful photograph of their beautiful baby, 'I hope I shall see her many more Christmases, always as beautiful. Please remember me to your wife [Frances Wood]', 1 page, 4to Edward Thomas had an unexpected Christmas leave, between 21st and 27th December, arriving at High Beech on Friday 22nd December. During this leave he produced his penultimate poem 'Out in the Dark'. In January he returned to France, and on Easter Monday 9th April he was killed by a stray shell at the Beaurains Observation Post during the Battle of Arras. (1)
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[Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917]. An Autograph Letter Signed from Herbert Farjeon ('Rob') to his wife Joan, 20 Antrim Mansions, Monday [16th April 1917], 'Rosalind will have told you about Edward [Thomas, poet and close family friend who had died one week before at the Battle of Arras on 9th April]. All day long I have been thinking of him. God in heaven, Joan, this war is a terrible thing if you've no faith in it. - Yet death in itself is not terrible - only for those who remain. How I loved Edward didn;t you? He was the saddest man I ever knew, But we must set our faces ahead, ahead. Often I repeat that', continuing to talk of letters received and Nellie [his sister Eleanor, the children's writer and close friend of Edward Thomas] who 'is being splendid about Edward', referring to the Stage Society and a promising meeting with Noel and Lytton Strachey, referring to many social and work engagements over the coming days, and ending with deep love to Joan and their daughter Jocelyn, 2 pages, 4to, together with postmarked envelope Herbert Farjeon's first show was a one Act play entitled Friends, performed in the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 1917, and his career continued from there with several plays being performed on the London stage. (1)
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Charles Sims (British, 1873-1928) Aras signed and inscribed 'C. Sims./France, Aras', with a label inscribed 'This oil-colour sketch on wood was made by mr Charles Sims R. A. during his visit to the battlefields in sept.1918. The subject is the Scarpe Valley with Arras in the distance. A N Lee' (on the reverse) oil on panel 4 x 8 in. (12 x 22.3 cm.)
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