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Click here to subscribeFour: Sergeant P. S. K. Koelber, 9th Battalion, London Regiment 1914 Star, with copy clasp (831 Pte., 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (831 Pte., 9-Lond. R.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with additional service clasp (6607009 Sjt., 9-Lond R.) some contact wear and edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine or better (4) £120-150 £120-£150
Pair: Private A. J. Bunce, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1914 Star (8072 Pte., 1/R. Berks. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (8072 Pte., R. Berks. R.) good very fine pair: Private A. W. King, Middlesex Regiment british War and Victory Medals (L-12160 Pte., Midd’x. R.) pair: Sapper F. A. Bartlett, Royal Engineers british War and Victory Medals (65769 Spr., R.E.) generally good very fine or better (6) £120-150 Arthur John Bunce was born at Christchurch, Hampshire and enlisted at Reading. He died of wounds at home on 21 October 1918 whilst serving with the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Sold with a photocopied picture of Private Bunce, the caption of which states that he was wounded on two occasions. arnold William King died of wounds at home on 12 June 1915 whilst serving with the 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Sold with copy of m.i.c. confirming additional entitlement to 1914-15 Star. frederick Arthur Bartlett was killed in action in France and Flanders on 19 October 1915 whilst serving with the 63rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Sold with six pages of copied service papers and copy of m.i.c. confirming entitlement to 1914-15 Star. £120-£150
Pair: Private H. Freeman, Coldstream Guards 1914 Star (7993 Pte., C. Gds.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (7993 Pte., C. Gds.) good very fine (2) £60-80 Harry Freeman was born in Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire, lived at Market Harboro, Northamptonshire and enlisted at Leicester. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 22 December 1915 whilst serving with the Coldstream Guards. £60-£80
Nine: Private J. Newton, Grenadier Guards and Royal Household 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (11297 Pte., 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11297 Pte., G. Gds.); Defence; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., 1907-1927, 2 clasps, Thirty Years, Forty Years (John Robert Newton), mounted court style as worn, fine and better (lot) £800-1000 John Robert Newton was born in Walpole St. Peters, near Wisbeach, Norfolk. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards in January 1904, aged 19 years, having previously served in the Royal Field Artillery. After service in the U.K. he was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1907 and took employment with the Royal Household. With the onset of the Great War he was mobilized at London on 5 August 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 November 1914. He served in France until 6 October 1915 and suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm. Returning home, he was discharged on 22 February 1917 as a result of his injury and returned to his service in the Royal Household. As a Gentleman Porter at Windsor Castle he was awarded the R.V.M. in Silver (London Gazette 1 January 1943). sold with recipient’s wartime identity disk and three buttons. Also with a Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. Newton, Cambridge Gate, Windsor Castle, Berks.’; together with two copied photographs of the recipient in court dress wearing medals. With copied service papers and m.i.c. which confirm the award of the 1914 Star clasp and Silver War Badge. £800-£1000
Family group: four: Serjeant H. C. Wolfe, Suffolk Regment 1914 Star (214 Sjt., 1/4 Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (214 Sjt., Suff. R.); Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (2425 Sjt., 1st V.B. Suffolk Regt.), last with erasure before service number, mounted as worn four: Serjeant C. H. Wolfe, Suffolk Regiment 1914 Star (1289 Pte., 1/4 Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1289 Sjt., Suff. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200080 Sjt., 4/Suff. R.), mounted as worn; together with ‘Hearts of Oak Benefit Society’ Gold Medal for Services Rendered, (H. C. Wolfe), 9ct., hallmarks for Birmingham 1907, 9.45g., 30 x 25mm.; British Red Cross Society Cross, for Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid (O7395 H. Wolfe); St. John Ambulance Brigade Examination Cross, (121076 Harry C. Wolfe); silver; other medals (3), very fine and better (lot) £360-400 Serjeant Harry Wolfe, Suffolk Regiment, the elder brother of Charles H. Wolfe, was discharged as time expired on 1 April 1917. serjeant Charles H. Wolfe, Suffolk Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 8 November 1914. He was wounded in action on 19 June 1916, receiving shell wounds to the left knee and wrist. Returning to duty, he was posted missing on 23 April 1917, being made a prisoner-of-war. Held at Langensalza, he was repatriated to England on 5 December 1918. sold with two silver match cases; glazed gilt locket with photographs and several postcard photographs; copied service records and m.i.c. for both recipients. £360-£400
Four: Captain G. F. Rickett, 12th Battalion London Regiment (The Rangers), taken prisoner, 8 May 1915 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., 12/Lond. R.), with card box of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, in Wyon, London case of issue; Coronation 1902, bronze, in Elkington, London case of issue, extremely fine (lot) £180-220 George Frederick Rickett was born in Willesden Green and was educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic. A Civil Servant by occupation, he joined the 12th Battalion London Regiment in 1909 and by 1914 was ranked as a Colour Sergeant. He received a commission in the battalion in October 1914 and on 24 December 1914 entered the France/Flanders theatre of war. He was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1915 and Captain in June 1916. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Verloren Hoek, near Ypres, on 8 May 1915. His Medical Report records, ‘States that he was in front line trenches when hit on head by shrapnel. Got dressed, went back in counter attack 4 days later hit thro lung & taken prisoner. In hospital, then sent to camps & dressed there’. Elsewhere it is recorded that he received ‘shrapnel in head’ and ‘bullet in right lung’. Held principally in the camp at Gutersloh, he was transferred to internment in Holland in March 1918 and repatriated to England in November. In 1919 he was attached to the Royal Fusiliers and was employed with the Army of Occupation. In May 1920 he was appointed Acting Adjutant of the 12th Battalion London Regment. Sold with copied m.i.c. and a quantity of copied service papers. Together with four other medals, two medallions in cases and a wax seal in glass-fronted case. £180-£220
Pair: Private J. Foggo, 1st Battalion, Scottish Horse 1914-15 Star (4348 Pte., 1-Sco. H.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4348 Pte., 1-Sco. H.) pair: Private J. S. Gillespie, 2nd Battalion, Scottish Horse british War and Victory Medals (5616 Pte., 2-Sco. H.) generally good very fine (4) £50-60 James Foggo first served in Gallipoli on 18 August 1915. james S. Gillespie first served in Gallipoli on 23 October 1915 and is therefore entitled to the 1914-15 Star. £50-£60
Six: Battery Quartermaster Serjeant A. G. R. Cunningham, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (13 Whlr. S. Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (13 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.); Defence, unnamed; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (739211 S. Sjt., R.F.A.), note initials are ‘A. G. K.’ on this medal; Civil Defence Long Service, E.II.R., unnamed, mounted as worn; Silver War Badge (B188611) good very fine (7) £70-90 Wheelwright Staff Sergeant Albert George Reginald Cunningham, R.F.A., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 March 1915. Commissioned 18 September 1917, he served with the 19th Anti-Aircraft Company, R.G.A. Sold with copied m.i.c. Silver War Badge to Cunningham not confirmed. silver War badge ‘B.188611’ was awarded to ‘12262 Sergeant George Robinson, Royal Army Veterinary Corps’, who enlisted on 19 October 1915 and was discharged on 23 March 1919. £70-£90
Three: Leading Sick Berth Attendant A. Warren, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (351009 S.B.S. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (351009 2 S.B.S., R.N.), mounted as worn, a little polished, generally very fine (3) £60-80 Arthur Warren was born in Nottingham in December 1885 and entered the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant in January 1902. A Sick Berth Steward 2nd Class serving at Cape Town Hospital by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he joined the cruiser H.M.S. Challenger in May 1915 and served in her until the end of the War. He consequently shared in her honours off the East and West coasts of Africa, most notably the Cameroons campaign, the ‘rounding-up’ of the Konigsberg in 1915, in close liaison with our monitors the Severn and Mersey, and the bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam in June of the same year. Interestingly, Warren’s service record also reveals that he went ashore for ‘Land Operations’ in the course of 1917, when the Challenger was still operating off East Africa. He was finally placed on a reduced pension in the rate of Leading Sick Berth Attendant in October 1922, but, as a result of some average character assessments, was not awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal. £60-£80
Four: Captain E. W. Daniel, Essex Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers, who was severely wounded in August 1918 1914-15 Star (6069 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Coronation 1937, privately engraved, ‘Capt. E. W. Daniel’, mounted as worn, generally very fine (4) £180-220 Edward Welley Daniel, who was born in West Ham, London in April 1895 and educated at St. Paul’s College, Cheltenham, enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in December 1914. Posted to the 19th Battalion, he served out in France, onetime being attached as a ‘batman’ to 2nd Lieutenant de la Rue, 98 Light Trench Mortar Battery (his service record refers), but in late 1916 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Sometime thereafter joining the 10th Battalion out in France, he was severely wounded at Morlaucourt on 8 August 1918, when shot in the face, the bullet entering his lower left jaw at an angle and exiting at the outer side of his nose (Medical Board report refers). He was duly evacuated from Le Havre, saw no further active service and was demobbed in March 1920. daniel was awarded his Coronation 1937 Medal while employed as the Assistant Director of Education in Trinidad - the official roll refers - so his privately engraved rank of Captain might well suggest additional service in the Local Defence Force. £180-£220
Seven: Leading Seaman A. E. Wright, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, together with a R.A.O.B. badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse named and dated May 1923, heavily lacquered, otherwise generally very fine (8) £40-60 Albert Edwin Wright was born in Tenbury in July 1895 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1913. An Ordinary Seaman serving aboard the battleship H.M.S. Ajax by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he came ashore to an appointment in Vivid I in May 1915 and removed to the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh in September of the latter year. He was subsequently present at Jutland, when the Duke of Edinburgh was the only ship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron to survive the battle. Having then returned to another shore appointment in August 1918, he remained in the service after the War and transferred to submarines in November 1926. His service record further confirms his entitlement to the L.S. & G.C. £40-£60
Three: Able Seaman C. J. Marshall, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (365230 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (365230 A.B., R.N.), together with related H.M.S. Natal Medal 1915, silver, obverse, Arms of Natal, enclosed by two branches of oak, and ‘From the People of Natal’ above, reverse, the cruiser at sea with ‘Presented to H.M.S. Natal’ above and ‘1915’ below (Cecil J. Marshall), 26mm., integral loop for suspension, generally good very fine (4) £80-100 Cecil John Marshall was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in October 1890 and entered the Royal Navy as a boy rating in October 1906. Having then joined the cruiser H.M.S. Natal as an Able Seaman in March 1913, he was still similarly employed when she mysteriously blew up in the Cromarty Firth on 30 December 1915 - the exact number of resultant casualities is still a matter of debate, but most probably amounted to some 400 officers and men. the Royal Navy lost four ships to internal explosions in the Great War, and at the time there was much speculation that these losses were due to sabotage by enemy agents. More certain is the fact Natal’s upturned hull remained visible at low water for many years, and right up until the 1939-45 War it was R.N. practice on entering and leaving Cromarty for every warship to sound ‘Still’ and for officers and men to come to attention as they passed the wreck. lucky indeed to be among the survivors, Marshall took up shore appointments in Pembroke I in January 1916 and the Sherness torpedo school Actaeon in August of the same year. But he returned to seagoing duties in the cruiser Blanche from February 1917 to July 1918 before being discharged ashore in December 1920. £80-£100
Three: Private F. Pearce, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action on 1 November 1916 1914-15 Star (1575 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (SPTS-1575 Pte., R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Pearce), in card envelope of issue, extremely fine (3) £160-200 Frederick Pearce was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and living in Cirencester, enlisted at Hornchurch. Serving with the 23rd (Sportsman’s) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 November 1915. Serving with them he was killed in action on 1 November, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps. in a newspaper cutting bearing his photograph it was reported, ‘As recorded in our obituary column a fortnight ago, Mr and Mrs F. Pearce, of 54 Ashcroft Road, Cirencester, have been acquainted by the Captain of the death of their son, Lance-Corporal Frederick Pearce, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on November 1st. He was struck by a bomb and died soon afterwards. Lance-Corporal Pearce was in London at the outbreak of war and at once volunteered for service, but owing to the inability of the military to cope with the rush of recruits his services were not accepted till June, 1915, when he joined the Sportsmen’s Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He had been in France for 13 months and had taken part in much of the heavy fighting since the commencement of the big offensive. Like his younger brother, Sergeant Ben Pearce, R.A.M.C., who was home on leave at the time of the sad occurance, Lance-Corporal Pearce was one of the original members of the 1st Cirencester Company Boys’ Brigade. [In referring to the award of the Military Medal to Sergeant B. Pearce recently, it was erroneously stated that he was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Pearce. He is, of course the fifth son.]’. sold with a commemorative poster and a folder containing a newspaper cutting, a letter of condolence from one of his comrades, 21 November 1916; a handwritten military message; copied m.i.c. and research and photographs of his grave stone and of the cemetery. for a group to one of his brothers, see Lot 1481. £160-£200
A Great War ‘Al Valore Militare’ group of five awarded to Chief Mechanician J. G. Friend, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (232807 Act. Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (232807 Mech., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (232807 Mechn., H.M.S. Osea), this with minor correction; Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, unmarked, unnamed, British medals with contact marks, fine and better, last nearly extremely fine (5) £400-500 John George Friend was born in Deal, Kent in February 1887. A Porter by occupation he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1905, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in March the same year. He was promoted to Stoker 2nd Class in August 1905 when on the Acheron; to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906 on the Amphitrite; Acting Leading Stoker in August 1909 on the Bacchante; Acting Stoker Petty Officer in November 1910 when based at Pembroke I, and Stoker Petty Officer in November 1911 when on the Triumph. With the onset of war Friend was serving on the 3rd class cruiser Diamond and was appointed Acting Mechanician on 1 January 1915. In March he was transferred to the old battleship Russell and was advanced to Mechanician in January 1916. He was aboard her when she was mined and sunk off Malta on 27 April 1916. In the court martial to ascertain the loss of the vessel, Friend was one of a number of officers and men commended. Resulting from this he was awarded the Al Valore Militare (London Gazette 17 November 1917). He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal whilst based at Osea, August 1919-June 1921, this being the coastal motor boat base at Clacton-on-Sea, 1919-21. Further service followed and he attained the rank of Chief Mechanician 2nd Class in April 1924, when on the dreadnaught battleship Marlborough. Chief Mechanician Friend was pensioned ashore on 10 February 1927. Sold with copied service papers and Admiralty papers relating to the loss of the Russell. £400-£500
Three: Driver J. Edwards, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (83962 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (83962 Dvr., R.A.) british War and Victory Medal pairs (3) (23370 Pte. J. McGregor, Cam’n. Highrs.; 317881 Spr. J. H. Beattie, R.E.; 79664 Sjt. D. Taylor, R.A.M.C.) good very fine and better (9) £80-100 £80-£100
Four: Acting Quartermaster Serjeant A. E. Back, East Kent Regiment 1914-15 Star (L-8910 L. Cpl., E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-8910 Pte., E. Kent R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (L-8910 Pte.-A.Q.M. Sjt., 3/E. Kent R.), mounted for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £140-180 M.S.M. London Gazette 12 December 1919. lance-Corporal A. E. Back, East Kent Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 January 1915. He was later awarded the M.S.M. for service at ‘Home’. Sold with copied m.i.c. and M.S.M. card. £140-£180
Family group: four: Gunner R. Aveley, Royal Marine Artillery 1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 6320 Gr.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 6320 Gr.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6320 Gunner, R.M.A.) four: Corps Superintendent R. J. Aveley, St. John Ambulance Brigade order of St. John, Officer, silver base metal and enamel, some enamel damage; Order of St. John, Serving Brother, silver and enamel; South Africa Medal for War Service 1939-45, unnamed; St. John Service Medal, 3 clasps (S.A.58R. J. Aveley, 1949), silvered base metal, very fine and better (8) £140-180 Robert Aveley was born in Baldock, Hertfordshire on 19 October 1878. A Harness Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the R.M.A. at Bedgord on 12 October 1896. During the Great War he served as a Gunner aboard the battleship Erin, August 1914-September 1917, being present on the ship at the battle of Jutland. Sold with copied service paper. robert Joseph Aveley joined the Port Elizabeth branch of the S.J.A.B. on 29 June 1936. He was awarded the Service Medal in 1949, with clasps for 1954, 1959 and 1964. He was admitted to the Order of St. John as a Serving Brother on 22 May 1957 and promoted to Officer on 10 June 1964. Aveley was appointed Divisional Officer of the 1st Port Elizabeth City Ambulance on 17 August 1955, Divisional Superintendent on 7 December 1955 and Corps Superintendent on 4 January 1959. Sold with copied service papers. £140-£180
Four: Stoker Petty Officer M. Burns, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (U.1060 L. Sto., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1060 U. S.P.O., R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (U.1060 Lg. Sto., R.N.R.); Memorial Plaque (Martin Burns) extremely fine (5) £120-160 Petty Officer Martin Burns, R.N.R., died on 26 October 1918 whilst serving at H.M.S. Pembroke (Chatham). He was buried in the East London Cemetery, Plaistow. He was the husband of Margaret Eliza Burns of 10 Athol Street, Poplar. Sold with medal forwarding slip addressed to Mrs Burns. £120-£160
Three: Stoker Petty Officer W. J. Cox, Royal Navy, killed in action with German destroyers, 12 December 1917 1914-15 Star (285190 S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (285190 S.P.O., R.N.) extremely fine (3) £120-160 Stoker Petty Officer Walter John Cox, R.N., was killed in action on 12 December 1917, aged 22 years, whilst serving aboard the destroyer Partridge. The son of Esther Cox of Canterbury and the late Charles Cox, and the husband of Edith Mary Cox of 56 Ivy Lane, Canterbury. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. the Partridge was part of a unit based at Lewick on the Shetland Islands used for escorting convoys to and from Scandinavia. On 11 December 1917 the ship left port in company with the destroyer Pellew and the armed trawlers Livingstone, Commander, Lord Alverstone and Tokie escorting a convoy of six ships. At 11.45 a.m. on 12 December the convoy was S.W. of Bjorne Fiord when four enemy detsroyers were sighted to the north. After signalling the merchant ships to scatter, the Pellew and Partridge closed with the enemy ships. In the action that followed, the Partridge was hit by shells and torpedoes and sunk, going down with five officers and 92 ratings. The sole survivor of the convoy was the Pellew which, though damaged, managed to escape in the heavy weather. sold with an original photograph of Petty Officer Cox and another of his wife?; also with original Birth and Marriage Certificates; damaged medal card boxes of issue with registered envelope and forwarding slip. £120-£160
Five: Chief Engine-Room Artificer P. Stowar, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Marlborough throughout the War, including the battle of Jutland, and was awarded the M.S.M. shortly after Marlborough evacuated members of the Russian Imperial family from Yalta in April 1919 1914-15 Star (M.2541 P. Stowar, E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Act. C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (M.2541 C.E.R.A.1 H.M.S. Columbine); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (M.2541 P. Stowar A/C.E.R.A. 2Cl. ‘Marlborough’ War Services) suspension claw tightened and repaired on the last, otherwise about very fine (5) £350-400 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 July 1919. percy Stowar was born at Wimborne, Dorset, on 20 July 1889, and entered the Royal Navy as an acting Engine Room Artificer on 15 October 1910. He joined the battleship Marlborough in June 1914, was present at the battle of Jutland in 1916, and was still serving aboard her when she evacuated the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, Queen Alexandra’s sister, and other members of the Russian Imperial family, from Yalta, in the Crimea, in April 1919. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1925, was granted a Hurt Certificate for a fractured patella in February 1928, and left the Navy later that year. Sold with copy record of service. for further details of the services of H.M.S. Marlborough at the battle of Jutland see Lot 1411 for the D.S.O. group awarded to her Executive Commander. £350-£400
Six: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. W. R. Assheton (alias Graham), London Regiment 1914-15 Star (3447 Pte. J. Graham, 6th Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oakleaf (3447 Pte. J. Graham, 6-Lond. R.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial, with Second and Third Award bars (6573010 W.O. Cl. II J. W. R. Assheton, 19-Lond. R.), first three and last mounted as worn, British War and Victory Medals worn; others very fine and better (6) £140-180 M.I.D. not confirmed. john William Ralph Assheton was born on 15 June 1897. He enlisted into the 1/6th London Regiment under the name of ‘Jack Graham’, and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 October 1915. He later served with the Royal West Kent Regiment. With the Territorial Army between the wars, he was appointed a Warrant Officer Class II in the 19th Battalion London Regiment in 1931. At the time of the Coronation in 1937 he was C.S.M. of the 33rd (St. Pancras) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, R.E. Employed as a Foreman at the Office of Works, he was called up for military service with the 30th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 2 September 1939. Serving as a C.S.M., he was discharged on 2 July 1945. sold with a quantity of original documents, including: Warrant Officer Class II document - named to ‘John William Ralph Graham’ with ‘Graham’ unofficially placed in brackets and amended ‘Assheton’; photograph album c.1924; Calling Out Notice, 1939; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Notebook Diary, 15 December 1942-20 December 1943; Soldier’s Release Book; Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve, 1945; Record of Service Card; Driving Licence; St. Pancras Regiment Old Comrades’ Association Membership Card; Corps of Military Police Sergeants’ Mess Honorary Member’s Card; Silver Jubilee Programme, 1935 - named to Assheton, and sundry other papers and loose photographs. £140-£180
Five: Bandmaster H. Rivers, Royal Marines 1914-15 Star (R.M.B.406 Bdmr.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.B. Bdmr.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (R.M.B.406 Henry Rivers, Bandmaster 2Cl., R.M.); Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (RMB.406 B.M.11(sic), 28.2.1951) good very fine, last extremely fine, scarce (5) £750-850 Henry Rivers was born in Lambeth, London, on 21 June 1881. He entered the Royal Navy as a Band Boy aboard the Lion on 22 October 1895 and was advanced to Bandsman in June 1899 whilst on the Boscawen. Transferring to the Royal Marines in April 1904 he was promoted to Band Corporal in 1908 and became a Bandmaster on 5 July 1912. He was discharged on 20 June 1920. Rivers was latterly Bandmaster of the Shanklin Town Band. Sold with a folder containing copied service papers and letters of appreciation. m.S.M. in card box of issue and with fragmentary registered envelope, addressed to ‘Mr H. Rivers, 43 St. Michael’s Ave., Ryde, I.O.W.’ (Isle of Wight). £750-£850
Family group: ten: Lieutenant Commander W. E. Mingay, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M.937 S.S.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.937 V.C.P.O., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.937 S.C.P.O., H.M.S. Dragon), mounted as worn, British War and Victory Medals worn; others nearly very fine and better six: attributed to G. E. Mingay, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, mounted as worn, these nearly extremely fine (16) £300-350 M.I.D. London Gazette 8 January 1942. william Edmund Mingay was born in Portsmouth. He entered the Royal Navy as a Ships Stewards Boy in March 1909 and was advanced to Ships Stewards Assistant when serving on the Black Prince in September 1911. During the Great War he served on/was based at Halcyon, Actaeon I, Pembroke and Hussar, on which latter ship he was appointed Victualling Chief Petty Officer in February 1918. Mingay was promoted to Warrant Supply Officer in August 1931 and Commissioned Supply Officer in July 1939. As such, during the war, when based at Excellent II, he was mentioned in despatches for his services during the withdrawal from Crete. In September 1942 he was promoted to Lieutenant. In 1944 he received a Certificate of Appreciation for ‘his fine example of tireless devotion to duty whilst serving on my staff during the training and preparatory stages of the invasion of France, and during Operation Neptune’ - signed Flag Officer Commanding Force ‘S’. During 1945 he held the rank of Acting Lieutenant Commander. He retired from the Navy in 1946 and died in 1979. Sold with framed M.I.D. Certificate and a framed Certificate of Appreciation and copied service papers. professor Gordon Edmund Mingay, B.A., Ph.D., was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, on 20 June 1923, the son of William Edmund Mingay, R.N. Educated at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, and the University of Nottingham. Mingay lectured at the Woolwich Polytechnic and the London School of Economics before taking the chair of Professor of Agrarian History at the University of Kent in 1965. Latterly living at Selling, he retired in 1983 and died in 2006. Sold with newspaper cutting with photograph and obituary. £300-£350
Four: Air Corporal F. C. Healey, South African Air Force, late South Aftican Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (Pte., 1st S.A.M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Rfm., 1st S.A.M.R.); Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (No.1707 Air Cpl., S.A.A.F.) nearly very fine and better (4) £180-220 Frederick Charles Healey (variously spelt as ‘Heally’ or ‘Healley’ on documents) was born at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, on 10 October 1890. A Farrier and Blacksmith by occupation, he attested for service with the South African Mounted Rifles on 15 January 1916, having previously served for 6 months with the Rand Light Infantry. With the 1st Battalion S.A.M.R. he served until September 1920 when he was transferred to the Artillery. Transferred to the S.A.O.C. in March 1930 and then to the S.A.A.F. in December 1933, he applied for his Long Service medal in July 1935. Transferred to the T.S.C. in January 1940, he was discharged in October that year. sold with copied service papers. £180-£220
1914-15 Star and Victory Medal pairs (7) (157 Pte. J. C. Lord, R. Fus.; S-6157 Pte. E. Craig, Rif. Brig.; 66085 Dvr./Gnr. A. H. Grist, R.F.A./R.A.; 47189 Dvr. G. T. Taylor, R.F.A./R.A.; 30414 Spr. J. A. Brown, R.E.; 71404 Dvr. A. Hastings, R.E.; 2198 Pte. J. Smith, R.A.M.C.) fine and better (14) £100-140 Medals to Taylor with copied m.i.c. which states medals forfeited. £100-£140
Pair: Private G. Bright, 12th Australian Light Horse british War Medal 1914-20 (80 Pte., 12 L.H.R. A.I.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (80 Pte., 1-L.H. A.I.F.) nearly very fine (2) £120-160 George Bright was born in Battersea. A Station Hand by occupation, he enlisted into the 1st Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force on 13 January 1915, aged 20 years. He transferred to the 12th Light Horse Regiment in March 1915 but returned to the 1st L.H. R. in October the same year. He served for a short period in Gallipoli, August-September 1915 but was invalided to Malta suffering from dysentery on 21 September. Still suffering from the disease, he was returned to Australia in August 1916 and was discharged from the A.I.F. on 14 April 1917. He died from the effects of chronic dysentery on 2 August 1918. He was buried in Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery. Entitled to a 1914-15 Star. sold with a quantity of copied service papers. £120-£160
Pair: Private C. Sheriffs, Canadian Infantry british War Medal 1914-20 (460899 Pte., 8-Can. Inf.); Canadian Memorial Cross (541864 Spr. G. Sheriff), this in case of issue, note slight variation in surname and initial, extremely fine (2) £100-140 Private Charles Sheriffs, 8th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), was killed in action, France/Flanders on 14 June 1916, aged 30 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the son of George and Helen Sheriffs of 142 High Street, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland. £100-£140
Three: Company Quartermaster Serjeant F. J. Heale, London Regiment british War and Victory Medals (2658 C. Sjt., 7-Lond. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (350788 C.Q.M. Sjt., 7/Lond. R.) good very fine (3) £120-160 M.S.M. London Regiment 3 June 1919. The recipient came from Leyton. £120-£160
Three: Private N. Beyfus, Royal Army Medical Corps british War and Victory Medals (103 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (103 Pte., R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn, extremely fine (3) £120-160 Sold with two books of verse by Norman Beyfus: Through a Mist, Fortune Press, London, 64pp. and Sedlescombe and other Verse, Stockwell, Ilfracombe, 1964, 80pp., both with dustjackets. With a ‘holiday’ photograph of the recipient dated 1949. £120-£160
Three: Captain C. J. Temperley, Royal Air Force, late Northern Cyclist Battalion and Royal Flying Corps, who was wounded in a combat in October 1917, while piloting an S.E. 5 of No. 60 Squadron british War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt., N. Cyc. Bn.), contained in an old metalled display frame, together with his privately engraved silver identity disc, the obverse inscribed ‘Capt. C. J. Temperley, N. Cyc. Bn. & R.F.C., 1914-18’, and the reverse ‘Noel M. Temperley, W.R.N.S., 1940 1945’, extremely fine (4) £600-700 clifford James Temperley, who was born in June 1894 and commissioned as a Territorial Officer in November 1914, qualified for his ‘Wings’ in June 1915 (Certificate No. 1367), and remained employed on the Home Establishment until joining No. 60 Squadron, an S.E. 5 unit operating out of St. Marie Cappel, in October 1917. By then a Temporary Captain, it was intended he take up appointment as a Flight Commander, but in lieu of his lack of experience in scouts in France the Squadron C.O. vetoed the idea. And, as it transpired, Temperley was downed just a few days later, on the 28th, when wounded in the foot in a combat near Vlamertinger and forced to land near Poperinghe. Invalided home, he did not return to duty until April 1918, with an appointment at the Air Ministry, following which he served as a Staff Officer until the end of hostilities. He was placed on the Unemployed List in January 1919. sold with the recipient’s Great War photograph album, containing approximately 25 images of fellow pilots, aircraft and ‘prangs’, together with a fine-quality studio portrait in uniform, in contemporary glazed frame; a Dover Garrison Pass in the name of ‘2nd Lieut. C. J. Temperley’, circa 1915, and additional items appertaining to Noel Temperley, W.R.N.S., including another smaller identity disc, in white gold, and a silver and enamelled compact case, with central applique R.F.C. badge, together with two related photographs, an Admiralty certificate appointing her a Third Officer, dated 21 December 1941, and a souvenir programme for an R.A.F. Benevolent Fund matinee held at the New Opera House Blackpool on 5 October 1941, complete with a pair of admittance tickets. £600-£700
Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 C. H. Youngjohns, Worcestershire Regiment british War and Victory Medals (9 S. Sjt., Worc. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (9 W.O. Cl. II, Worc. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (9 Sjt., 7/Worc. Regt.) nearly extremely fine (4) £160-200 £160-£200
Four: Sergeant J. A. Smith, Royal Engineers british War and Victory Medals (492283 Sjt., R.E.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (492283 Sjt., R.E.); Belgian Croix de Guerre; together with Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘448012’, good very fine (5) £180-220 Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 15 April 1918. james A. Smith was discharged from the army on 25 April 1919 due to sickness. £180-£220
Family group: pair: Private J. Pearman, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry late Military Foot Police, killed in action, 22 August 1918 british War and Victory Medals (P-1739 Pte., M.F.P.); Memorial Plaque (John Pearman) extremely fine pair: Private H. Pearman, South Staffordshire Regiment british War and Victory Medals (3057 Pte., S. Staff. R.) good very fine (5) £120-160 John Pearman was born in Walsall. Prior to the war he served in the Walsall Constabulary. With the onset of war he enlisted at Walsall into the Military Foot Police as Private P-1739. Transferring then to the 10th (Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry as Private 31870, he was killed in action on 22 August 1918. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. He was the son of John and Matilda Pearman of 94 New Mills Street, Palfrey, Walsall. Sold with a folder containing a commemorative scroll, copied m.i.c. for John and his brother Harry Pearman and copied photographs of John and his father, with other research. for their father’s medal, see Lot 259. £120-£160
Seven: Chief Petty Officer W. T. D. Downham, Royal Navy british War and Victory Medals (J.73138 Boy 1, R.N.), late issues; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue (J73138 A/P.O., H.M.S. Nelson) nearly extremely fine (7) £200-240 M.I.D. London Gazette 29 July 1941 & 1 January 1943. william Thomas Drayson Downham was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, on 17 March 1902. A Farm Boy by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 5 July 1917 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in December 1917. Posted to light cruiser Centaur in January 1918, he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in 1920 and Able Seaman in February 1921 when on the Shakespeare. In the Second World War he was a Chief Petty Officer aboard the destroyer Dainty when she was bombed and sunk by German dive-bombers off Tobruk, on 24 February 1941. In the inquiry into the loss of the ship, Downham, who was at the ship’s wheel in the wheel house, reported: ‘I was able to steer the ship for approximately two minutes when the steering gear failed and I reported to the bridge. The order was given ‘Stop engines; abandon wheel house’. The telegraph appeared to be in action and I received a reply from the Engine Room by gong. The First Lieutenant gave the order ‘Flood the foremost magazine’. This was carried out by myself and two Able Seamen - Able Seaman Taft and Able Seaman Burns. The next order from the Captain was ‘Everybody to the fo’csle; stand-by to abandon ship’. I assisted in tying the Hasty alongside and about 60 men jumped inboard’. For his services during the action, he was mentioned in despatches. He was further mentioned in despatches in 1943, for services as C.P.O. aboard the destroyer Wells. sold with copied service papers; report on the loss of the Dainty; gazette extracts; and medal roll. This latter shows Downham was issued with a duplicate pair of British War and Victory Medals in 1952. £200-£240
Five: Acting Flight Lieutenant L. R. Backhouse, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve british War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Act. Flt. Lt., R.A.F.V.R.(T.)), surname spelt ‘Blackhouse’ on last, good very fine and better (5) £100-120 Leslie Ray Paul Backhouse was born on 20 June 1896. From Ipswich, Suffolk and a Clerk in civilian life, he was appointed as 2nd Lieutenant on Probation in the R.F.C. on 19 December 1917. His rank was confirmed on 12 June 1918 and he was transferred to the Unemployed List on 5 April 1919. Appointed a Flight Officer with the R.A.F.V.R. Training Branch in March 1950, he was later advanced to Acting Flight Lieutenant. sold with copied Great War service papers. £100-£120
Family group: pair: Colour Serjeant T. Roe, Middlesex Regiment army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (586 C. Sgt., Middlesex Regt.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (C. Sjt., Midd’x. R.) pair: Private T. F. Roe, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action, 16 April 1917 british War and Victory Medals (GS-53117 Pte., R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Frederick Roe), in card envelope pair: Corporal L. Roe, Middlesex Regiment, killed in action, 28 March 1918 british War and Victory Medals (L.14528 Cpl., Midd’x. R.); Memorial Plaque (Leonard Roe), in card envelope, extremely fine (8) £400-460 Thomas Roe was born in St. Pancras, London. He enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment on 24 January 1883. With them he served in India, March 1884-November 1892. He married Mary Ann Noble at St. Andrew’s Church, Bombay, on 25 March 1891, with whom he had two sons - Thomas Frederick and Leonard. He was discharged on 31 February 1905 and was awarded the M.S.M. in 1929. thomas Frederick Roe was born in Mhow, India, on 20 December 1891, and living at Kensal Rise, he enlisted at London. Serving with the 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 16 April 1917. He was buried in the Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. leonard Roe was born in Brockley, Kent, on 30 November 1898. Enlisting at London he was serving with the 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment when he was killed in action on 28 March 1918. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. At the time of his death his parents were living at 247 Crickeade Road, Swindon. sold with copied service papers to T. Roe; copied m.i.c. for each of the brothers and sundry damaged card boxes of issue, enclosures and envelopes. Also with a letter addressed to Mr Roe, dated 29 May 1917, written by Corporal C. H. Owen, 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, giving details of the death of T. F. Roe, ‘.... On April 16th the Batt. made an attack & I have learned from a comrade that your son was killed by a bullet & died almost immediately without any pain....’ Together with a note addressed to Mr Roe, dated 17 April 1918, written by H. L. Shawcross, 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, expressing sorrow at the loss of Corporal L. Roe. £400-£460
Three: Private A. J. Garrett, Grenadier Guards, late Household Battalion, who was discharged through wounds in July 1918 british War and Victory Medals (1168 Tpr., Household Bn.); Coronation 1911, together with related Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘378798’, and an old medal riband bar (including Coronation 1911), very fine and better (5) £100-120 Alfred James Garrett, who probably qualified for his Coronation 1911 Medal as a Royal Household Servant, enlisted in the Household Battalion as a Trooper in June 1916 and was discharged from the Grenadier Guards as a result of wounds in July 1918, aged 32 years. £100-£120
Three: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. O’Brien, Royal Army Service Corps british War and Victory Medals (1085 W.O. Cl. 2, A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T4-240140 C.S. Mjr., R.A.S.C.), mounted for wear, good very fine and better (3) £120-160 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. sold with warrant appointing James O’Brien a Warrant Officer Class II, dated 12 November 1919. O’Brien was awarded the M.S.M. for services in Egypt. He came from Wood Green. £120-£160
Family group: three: Corporal H. Phipps, Royal Air Force british War and Victory Medals (204577 Cpl., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (204577 Cpl. Mech., R.A.F.) pair: Private G. Phipps, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed in action, 26 March 1917 british War and Victory Medals (1650 Pte., R. Suss. R.), initial given as ‘C’ on second medal, nearly extremely fine and better (5) £350-450 Henry Phipps m.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919. ‘.... in recognition of distinguished services’. henry Phipps was born in Bognor, Sussex, on 14 April 1896. The son of Mr Frederick and Mrs H. Phipps of 44 Pier Road, Littlehampton, Sussex, and an Engineer by occupation, he enlisted into the R.N.A.S. as an Engineer on 1 August 1916. Holding the rank of Leading Mechanic, he later transferred to the R.A.F. as a Fitter (Aero Engine) with the rank of Corporal Mechanic. He served in France, 25 May 1915-19 June 1916; 29 June 1916-18 April 1917; 10 January-19 April 1918, and then latterly served there until February 1919. he is recorded as serving in the following actions (ref. Air Defence of Britain, by Cole and Cheeseman): ‘9 February 1916 (Daylight): Flt. Sub-Lieut. W. H. Oakey and Air Mechanic H. Phipps flying from RNAS Westgate in a B.E.2c No.1188 took part as one of 24 defence sorties against one Friedrichshafen FF33e and one Hansa-Brandenburg NW, whose target was Broadstairs and Ramsgate. The result of the raid was none killed and three injured. 19 March 1916 (Daylight): Flt. Sub-Lieut. Deans and Air Mechanic H. Phipps flying from RNAS Westgate in a B.E.2c No.1159 took part as one of 30 defence sorties against four Friedrichshafen FF33b-f, one Hansa-Brandenburg and one Gotha Ursinus W.D. whose target was Dover, Deal and Ramsgate. The result of the raid was 14 killed, 26 injured. 19/20 May 1916 (Night): Flt. Sub-Lieut. J. S. Browne and Air Mechanic H. Phipps flying from RNAS Westgate in a B.E.2c No.1158 took part as one of eight defence sorties against three Friedrichshafen FF33, three Hansa-Brandenburg NW and one Gotha Ursinus W.D. whose target was the Kent coast. The result of the raid was one killed and two injured.’ phipps was transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve in March 1919 and discharged in April 1920. He enlisted in the Class B Reserve as an Aircraftsman Class 2 on 21 December 1938 and was appointed a Serjeant on the following day. Sold with copied service papers and other research. george Phipps george Phipps, brother of Henry, was born in Bognor and enlisted at Littlehampton. Serving with the 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, he was killed in action in Egypt, 26 March 1917, aged 22 years. His name is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial. £350-£450
British War and Victory Medal pairs (8) (152356 Gnr. E. Gleadhill, R.A.; 214324 Gnr. H. J. Harrison, R.A.; 179894 Gnr. G. W. Hartwell, R.A.; L-41504 Bmbr. R. E. Jones, R.A.; 201298 Gnr. J. R. Mosely, R.A.; L-14713 Gnr. J. Parker, R.A.; SE-16331 Pte. J. Peck, ....; L-43419 Gnr. G. E. Shearson, R.A.), medals to ‘Peck’ with erased unit, some with edge bruising, fine and better (16) £100-140 Medals to ‘Harrison’ with copied m.i.c.; medals to ‘Jones’ in damaged card box of issue; medals to ‘Peck’ with copied m.i.c. showing service with the A.V.C. and R.F.A.; medals to ‘Shearson’ with copied m.i.c. showing ‘Enlistment 3.9.15’ and ‘Discharge 29.4.18’. £100-£140
British War and Victory Medal pairs (7) (575425 Pte. E. Pannell, Rif. Brig.; 124764 Gnr. H. P. E. Spencer, R.A.; M2-183300 Pte. J. Chesney, A.S.C.; S-405973 Pte. H. Crockford, A.S.C.; 032611 Pte. A. M. John, A.S.C.; M-400951 Pte. W. F. Kemp, A.S.C.; M2-115368 Pte. T. Pollard, A.S.C.) pair to ‘Pannell’ worn; others nearly very fine and better (14) £90-120 £90-£120
British War and Victory Medal pairs (7) (3260 Gnr. H. Allen, R.A.; 274506 Pnr. J. Banks, R.E.; 120615 Cpl. A. E. Cordwell, R.E.; 269541 Pnr. W. Darby, R.E.; 289590 Spr. W. Maloney, R.E.; 134623 Spr. G. E. Penney, R.E.; 69992 Spr. R. Porter, R.E.) nearly very fine and better (14) £90-120 Medals to ‘Banks’ with copied m.i.c. £90-£120
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. James, Northern Pioneers british War and Victory Medals (T. Capt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R. (Major R. H. James, N. Prs.), complete with brooch bar, in Royal Mint case of issue; Canadian War Service Badge, (159199), bronze and enamel screw-backed badge, extremely fine (4) £220-260 Sold with Canadian Certificate of Military Qualification, dated 21 & 22 April 1915, having passed the prescribed examination for the rank of Captain; Warrant, appointing Reginald Heler James to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Northern Pioneers; War Service Badge Certificate, confirming badge ‘159199’ to ‘R. H. James’ of the ‘C.R.T.D.’; a medal forwarding slip; riband bar, and with a section of The Northern News, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dated 6 August 1937, in which a speech given by Colonel Jameson on the history of markets ‘from the time of Adam’ is recorded. £220-£260
Three: Warrant Officer Class 1 W. S. Woodrow, Army Service Corps territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (T4-238765 A.W.O. Cl.1, A.S.C.), minor correction to unit; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (T4-238765 S.S. Mjr., A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T4-238765 T.S.T. Mjr., 58/D.T. A.S.C.) good very fine and better (3) £180-220 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war’. £180-£220
Five: 1st Class Engineer P. Playfair, Merchant Navy, among those to have suffered from exposure after his ship was torpedoed off Durban in April 1943 by U-Boat ace Asmus Clausen british War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Patrick Playfair); Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last three officially inscribed, ‘M.N. P. Plafair’, very fine and better (5) £150-200 patrick Playfair, who was born in Scotland in January 1887, served as a 3rd Class Engineer in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War (Board of Trade records refer). Sometime thereafter moving to South Africa, where he became a Union National, he served aboard the S.S. Aloe and S.S. Agulhas on voyages to Cape Town, Australia and Port Said, November 1940 until April 1943, in which latter month the Aloe was torpedoed by the U-182, Kapitain-Leutnant Asmus Clausen, a Knight’s Cross holder, while 420 miles south-east of Durban - the crew were rescued in the end, suffering from exposure, but their Captain, who had been ordered aboard the U-Boat, was not so fortunate: six weeks later the U-182 was lost with all hands following a depth-charge attack delivered by the U.S.S. MacKenzie. sold with related research, including copy A.S. Merchant Navy records confirming that his 1939-45 War campaign awards - including the 1939-45 Star - were forwarded to him in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1953. £150-£200
Family group to father and son: three: Private G. Cardy, Essex Regiment general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6619878 Pte., Essex R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45 general Service 1962, 3 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Northern Ireland (24029584 Rfn. G. Cardy, 2 Green Jackets), in card box, good very fine (4) £180-220 £180-£220
Four: Private J. Sherwood, East Kent Regiment, who died in Palestine on 16 December 1940 general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6285978 Pte., The Buffs), service number re-impressed, an erasure after surname; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine and better (4) £80-100 John William Sherwood enlisted into the East Kent Regiment on 11 April 1935. Embarked at Southampton on S.S. Laurentic on 14 September 1936 for service in Palestine. Disembarked at Bombay from the H.T. Somersetshire on 16 February 1937 and arrived at Lucknow on 19 February 1937. Later, returning to Palestine, he died on 16 December 1940, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Haifa War Cemetery and was the son of John Francis Giles and Harriet Sherwood of Saltwood, Hythe, Kent. Sold with copied research. £80-£100
Pair: Lieutenant J. R. Hex, Suffolk Regiment general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2/Lt., Suffolk R.); Coronation 1953, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £100-140 John Robert Hex was educated at Haileybury. As a Cadet he was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment (London Gazette 1 September 1950), promoted to Lieutenant (London Gazette 29 December 1953), and advanced to Acting Captain (London Gazette 7 June 1957). Sold with a quantity of copied research, which includes confirmation of Coronation Medal. £100-£140
Three: Gunner H. Jones, Royal Artillery general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (23734449 Gnr., R.A. Duplicate); General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, Dhofar (23734449 Gnr., R.A.); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP ribbon, unnamed, good very fine (3) £180-220 With card boxes of issue (3) for the duplicate G.S.M. with clasp Malaya; G.S.M. with clasp Northern Ireland, and for the clasp, Dhofar. £180-£220
Nine: Captain R. H. Smart, Royal Engineers india General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (1865647 Sjt., R.E.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (1865647 Sjt., R.E.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lt., R.E.), mounted as worn, very fine (9) £260-300 C.S.M. Reginald Henry Smart, R.E., was commissioned and ranked as a War Substantive Lieutenant in December 1941. He was appointed a Temporary Captain in August 1944 and confirmed in that rank in January 1953. Captain Smart retired in 1959. sold with the recipient’s Army Certificate of Education (3), 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class; Coronation Medal 1953 Certificate of award to Captain Smart; a letter with envelope addressed to ‘Captain R. H. Smart, 68 Richmond Street, Totterdown, Bristol 3’ re. the award of W.W.2 medals; a photograph album containing photographs of the recipient, colleagues, natives and scenery in India; other loose photographs. £260-£300
Eight: Sergeant R. G. Storey, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; U.N. Korea; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R.., 1 clasp, Malaya (522947 Sgt., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (522947 Sgt., R.A.F.), mounted as worn; Dunkirk Veterans Association Medal, some contact marks, very fine (7) £120-160 Sold with Dunkirk Veterans Association Membership Card, to R. G. Storey, of Singleton Court, Patrington, East Yorkshire. Storey joined the Association in October 1985. With Withernsea Hospital Patient’s Property envelope, named to Reginald Storey, date of admission, 8 May 1992. Also with card box of issue for U.N. Korea Medal, with label inscribed, ‘Sgt. Storey, No.2 Sqdn. Full Sutton’. £120-£160
Family group: seven: Warrant Officer C. F. Geeves, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; St. John Service Medal, silvered-bronze issue, 4 silver clasps (one base metal) (35523 A/Off. Bucks. S.J.A.B. 1947), mounted as worn seven: Mrs E. M. Geeves, nee Stevens, British Red Cross Society defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves), mounted as worn; B.R.C.S. Medal of Merit (5621 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing Cross, 1 clasp, Red Cross Nursing 1939 (15679 Elsie Stevens); Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid Cross, 1 clasp (loose), Red Cross First Aid 1939 (26285 E. Stevens); Proficiency in Anti-Gas Training Cross (6705 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. 3 Years Service Medal, 2 clasps, 3 Years Service (11992), these five enamelled; Identity Disk (Stevens E. M., B.R.C.S. Bucks 30, very fine and better (lot) £200-250 Medals to Warrant Officer Cyril Frank Geeves, R.A.M.C., sold with the recipient’s Soldiers Release Book and several photographs; together with a quantity of letters written by Geeves to his parents living at Rose Lawn, Woodside Close, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, during the period 1941-45. medals to Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves, nee Steven, wife of the above, sold with a number of original papers, including; Aylesbury Temple School Reports (6), 1924-26; ‘Young Helpers’ League’ Certificates (2); Royal Drawing Society Certificates (4); British Red Cross Society Certificates (4); British Legion Membership Card. During the Second World War she served aboard various Hospital Ships. £200-£250
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