Three: Private G. Bateman, Royal West Surrey Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Gheluvelt, 31 October 1914, and spent the rest of the Great War in captivity 1914 Star, with clasp (L-8195 Pte. G. Bateman. 1/The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-8195 Pte. G. Bateman. The Queen’s R.) all in named card boxes of issue, the last two with outer envelopes addressed to ‘Mr. G. Bateman, 7 St. Ann’s Gardens, Kentish Town, London, NW.’, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- George Bateman was born in Marylebone, London, in 1885, and attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment at Guildford on 25 October 1904, whilst currently serving in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. Posted to the 2nd Battalion on 13 February 1905, he transferred to the 1st Battalion on 25 November of that year, for service in India. Returning home on 21 February 1910, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 24 October 1913. Recalled to the Colours following the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914. He was taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Gheluvelt on 31 October 1914, during which battle the Battalion was virtually wiped out, suffering 9 officers and 624 other ranks either killed, wounded, or missing. However, their sacrifice was not in vain, for despite their heavy losses they prevented the enemy from taking Ypres and being able to advance on the channel ports. As Field Marshal Sir John French said: ‘31 October and 1 November will remain forever memorable in the history of our country, for, during those two days, no more than one thin and straggling line of tired-out British soldiers stood between the Empire and its practical ruin as an independent first-class Power.’ Bateman was one of those reported missing during the defence of Gheluvelt. Having been taken Prisoner of War, he spent the remainder of the War in captivity, including at Hähnofersand Lager P.O.W. camp. He was repatriated on 31 December 1918, and was discharged on 31 March 1920, after 15 years and 159 days’ service, of which 4 years and 62 days were spent in captivity. Sold with the recipient’s identity tag; cap badge; ‘Old Contemptibles’ lapel badge; a Queen’s Regiment ‘Prisoner of War Welcome Home Medal’, bronze; and two Regimental prize medals, both silver, these last three in cases of issue; a copy of ‘The Prisoner of War in Germany’, a booklet containing approximately 250 photographs from German Prison Camps, the inside page inscribed ‘Cpl G. Bateman 8195, “Queen’s” Regiment, Hähnofersand Lager, Germany, 26.5.1917’; various other ephemera; and copied service papers and a large quantity of copied research.
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Pair: Private H. R. Pearce, Army Ordnance Corps 1914 Star (S-6316 Pte. H. R. Pearce. A.O.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (S/6316 T-Sjt. H. RF. Pearce. A.O.C.) nearly very fine Pair: Flight Cadet F. W. Tolbutt, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (178217 F. Cdt. F. W. Tolbutt. R.A.F.) attempted erasure of name, otherwise very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (181859 Pte. 2. E. J. Davies. R.A.F.) good very fine (5) £120-£160 --- Horace R. Pearce attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914, latterly as a Transport Sergeant. Frank Wellesley Tolbutt, a native of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, was born on 3 November 1899 and attested for the Royal Air Force on 4 June 1918. Posted to 16 Training Depot Station, R.A.F. El Amiriya, Egypt, on 17 July 1918, he was still a Flight Cadet at the time of the Armistice, and having been commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant on 15 February 1919, returned to South Africa on 1 October 1919. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Chief Writer W. B. Bayley, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (345760. W. B. Bayley. WR.1. R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (345760. W. B. Bayley. Ch. Wr. R.N.) scratches to reverse of star, otherwise very fine Pair: Ordinary Seaman E. W. Ginelack, Royal Navy, who was killed in action whilst serving in H.M.S. Formidable on 1 January 1915 1914-15 Star (J.26317. E. W. Ginelack. Ord., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (J.26317 E. W. Ginelack. Ord. R.N.) very fine Pair: Stoker 1st Class S. T. Sawyer, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (SS.112429. S. T. Sawyer. Sto.1., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (SS.112429. S. T. Sawyer. Sto.1. R.N.) very fine Pair: Able Seaman A. Williams, Royal Navy, who died on 2 June 1916 1914-15 Star (J.7654. J. Williams. A.B., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (J.7654. J. Williams. A.B., R.N.) staining to BWM, very fine Pair: Acting Airman 1st Class A. Seaman, Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.2340, A. Seaman, A.M.2., R.N.A.S.); British War Medal 1914-20 (F.2340, A. Seaman Act. A.M.1. R.N.A.S.) very fine (10) £140-£180 --- Wallace Bruce Bayley, a Schoolboy from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was born on 12 September 1887. He attested for the Royal Navy, as a Boy on 12 September 1905. He saw service in H.M.S. Sphinx during the Persian Gulf 1909-14 campaign and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Northbrook. His LSGC was issued whilst he was serving in H.M.S. Hermione on 15 November 1920. Advanced Chief Petty Officer Writer on 4 January 1924, he was invalided from the service on 3 August 1927. Ernest William Ginelack, A Railway Signal Lad from Camden Town, London, was born on 3 November 1896 and attested for the Royal Navy on 3 August 1913. Advanced Ordinary Seaman on 3 November 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Formidable and was killed in action on 1 January 1915 when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 with the loss of 35 officers and 512 men. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Alfred Williams, an Errand Boy from Clapham, London, was born on 21 May 1894, and attested as a Boy for the Royal Navy on 21 May 1912. Advanced Able Seaman on 6 February 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Flirt and was drowned on 2 June 1916. He is buried in Streatham Cemetery, London.
Four: Petty Officer W. H. Wilkey, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (193457, W. H. Wilkey, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193457 W. H. Wilkey. P.O. R.N.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (193457 W. H. Wilkey, A.B, H.M.S. Commonwealth, 1906 3PR. Q.F.) generally very fine (4) £400-£500 --- William Henry Wilkey was born in Kenton, Devon, on 1 December 1880, and attested for the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 7 April 1897. Promoted Able Seaman on 17 October 1900, he was awarded his Naval Good Shooting Medal whilst serving in H.M.S. Commonwealth in 1908, and subsequently saw service during the Great War in H.M.S. Lion; H.M.S. Obedient (including service at the Battle of Jutland); and H.M.S. Noble. Advanced Petty Officer on 1 April 1918, he was shore pensioned on 24 November 1920, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 1 December 1920.
Three: Sergeant J. Nash, Royal Berkshire Regiment, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (240844 Sjt. J. Nash. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (163 Cpl, J. Nash. 4/R. Berks: Regt.) edge bruising to last, otherwise good very fine and better (3) £80-£100 --- James Nash was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 163 of 1 September 1909, and subsequently served with both the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Labour Corps during the Great War.
Three: Acting Armourer’s Mate H. G. A. Hedgecock, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M.6863. H. G. A. Hedgecock. Ar. Cr. R.N.) ; British War Medal 1914-20 (M.6863 H. G. A. Hedgecock. Act. Ar. Mte.) Victory Medals (M.6863 H. G. A. Hedgecock. Act. Ar. Mte. R.N.) mounted for wear, contact marks, very fine Three: Stoker 1st Class W. Jordan, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (295252. W. Jordan Sto. 1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (295252. W. Jordan Sto. 1. R.N.) very fine Three: Acting Leading Stoker W. H. Wright, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (K.7942. W. H. Wright. Sto.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.7942 W. H. Wright. Act. L. Sto. R.N.) very fine (9) £100-£140 --- Henry George Alfred Hedgecock, a Fitter from Gillingham, Kent, was born on 5 October 1894. He attested for the Royal Navy on 18 November 1913 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Dominion, H.M.S. Alert, H.M.S. Proserpine, and H.M.S. Lavertera. Advanced Armourer's Mate on 14 July 1922, he was demobilised to shore on 28 March 1923. William Jordan, a Labourer from Ballymartle, Co. Cork, was born on 17 March 1876 and attested for the Royal Navy on 11 April 1900. Advanced Stoker 1st Class on 17 August 1910, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Tiger during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915. He was invalided from the service on 8 December 1915. William Henry Wright, a Labourer from West Ham, London, was born on 3 December 1891 and attested for the Royal Navy on 12 August 1910. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. King George V at the Battle of Jutland and later in both H.M.S. Desperate and H.M.S. Leviathan. Advanced Stoker on 3 February 1920, he was discharged to shore on 15 July 1920.
Three: Leading Seaman G. H. Beard, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (212575, G. H. Beard, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (212575 G. H. Beard. L.S. R.N.) light contact marks, nearly very fine Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (William C. Morris); together with a Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Jewel, silver and enamel, the reverse named ‘Brother W. Charles Morris’ and awarded by the Tower Lodge, No. 5479, dated 1927, in jewellers case of issue, very fine (5) £60-£80 --- George Henry Beard was born at Peckham, London, on 31 August 1885 and commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 29 December 1900. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Sutlej, on 30 August 1903 and qualified as a Naval Diver in October 1906. He was appointed Able Seaman, H.M.S. Berwick, on 1 May 1905, and Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Black Prince on 1 October 1909, but was reduced back to Able Seaman, for absence, the following year. Over his career he was dis-rated on several occasions and confined to the cells, both for absence and drunkenness. During the Great War he served in H.M.S. Hibernia, H.M.S. Pembroke, and was serving at Mudros and Suvla Bay in the Monitor H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough. He later served in H.M.S. Leviathan, H.M.S. Caesar and was ashore at the barracks at Bermuda. He was shore demobilised in October 1919. William Charles Morris was born in Pwllheli, Wales, in 1890 and was serving in and was a survivor of the S.S. Carnarvon Bay (Captain William Griffith) when she was lost at sea off Melbourne, Australia, in 1910 (research with lot refers). Sold with copied research.
Pair: Able Seaman L. C. Sawyer, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.8399 L. C. Sawyer. A.B. R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (J.8399 L. C. Sawyer. A.B. R.N.) very fine Pair: Petty Officer J. Turnbull, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (C.Z.4209, J. Turnbull, L.S., R.N.V.R.,); Victory Medal 1914-19 (C.Z.4209 J. Turnbull, P.O. R.N.V.R.) very fine Pair: Private L. Kelsall, Royal Marines Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (CH.19722. Pte. L. Kelsall. R.M.L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (CH.19722. Pte. L. Kelsall. R.M.L.I.) glue residue on reverse of star, some staining, edge bruise to VM, otherwise very fine Pair: Leading Shipwright G. McQuilkin, Mercantile Fleet Auxillary 1914-15 Star (G. McQuilkin. L. Shpt., M.F.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (G. McQuilkin. Shpt., M.F.A.) very fine Pair: Private J. I. Pearson, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (G-13716 Pte. J. I. Pearson, R. Fus.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (G-13716 Pte. J. I. Pearson, R. Fus.) very fine (10) £100-£140 --- Lewis Cooper Sawyer, a Farm Labourer from Ipswich, Suffolk, was born on 7 December 1893. He attested, as a Boy, into the Royal Navy on 7 December 1911 and served during the Great War. Advanced Able Seaman on 10 December 1912, he died on 1 November 1919 and is buried in Ipswich Cemetery, Suffolk.
Four: Captain Sir Benjamin Chave, K.B.E., Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Benjamin Chave); Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.) mounted as worn; together with a bullion Torpedo badge, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, October 1997. K.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920. Benjamin Chave was born in 1870 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton, subsequently becoming a Master Mariner with the Union Castle Steam Ship Company. During the Great War he served as Commander, Royal Naval Reserve, aboard H.M.S. Armadale Castle, and subsequently, as Naval Transport Officer at Ludentzbucht, during General Botha’s successful campaign in German South West Africa. He was later Commanding the Transport Alnwick Castle when torpedoed in March 1917. The liner Alnwick Castle was taken over in 1914 as a troopship and in 1915 was in the Dardanelles. On 19 March 1917, when 310 miles west of the Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles, the ship was torpedoed without warning and sank within half an hour. The lifeboats, of which there were six, got away without mishap, but the weather worsened and the boats were separated. Two of them were never heard of again but the Chief Officer’s boat, containing 31 persons, drifted about for 9 days before being rescued by Spanish fishing boats and taken into Carino, near Cape Ortega. Ten persons had died, some had lost their reason and all were suffering from intense thirst, the water having given out some days before. Commander Chave’s boat had fared little better. She was five days adrift and was picked up by the French Fabre liner Venezia. Four persons had died from exposure. When a final muster of the survivors was made some weeks later, it was found that out of 139 persons on board the Alnwick Castle when she was torpedoed, 40 had been drowned or had died, including three of the crew of the Trevose, 25 crew of which ship had been rescued by Commander Chave the day before his own vessel was sunk. The full story of this episode is recounted by John Masters in his book I.D., chapter VI, ‘The Ordeal of Captain Chave’. He concludes: ‘No finer feat of seamanship has been performed in living memory: it ranks with the great voyages of the Elizabethans.’ Sold with copied research.
Family group: Pair: Leading Seaman A. MacDonald, Royal Naval Reserve, who was taken prisoner of war when the S.S. Bronwen was sunk by U-35, 24 September 1916. He contracted Tuberculosis, and died on his way home after release in November 1918 1914-15 Star (A.3091 A. McDonald. Smn. R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3091A A. McDonald. L.S. R.N.R.) officially renamed; Memorial Plaque (Angus MacDonald) note spellings, generally very fine or better Pair: Seaman D. MacDonald, Royal Naval Reserve British War and Victory Medals (1971C. D. MacDonald. Smn. R.N.R.) very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Angus MacDonald was the son of Mr and Mrs A. MacDonald of 15 Shulishadder Point, Stornoway. He served during the Great War with the Royal Naval Reserve, and was taken prisoner of war when the SS Bronwen (defensively armed steamship) was captured and sunk by gunfire from U-35 25 miles off Dragonera Island, 24 September 1916. MacDonald was interned at Salzerbad, Austria. He contracted Tuberculosis, and died on his way home after release, 27 November 1918. Leading Seaman MacDonald is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France. Donald MacDonald was the brother of the above, and also served with the Royal Naval Reserve during the Great War.
![Three: Deck Hand R. Rossiter, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (SB.218, E. [sic] Rossiter. Sig. Boy. R.N.R.); British War and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/634e29bc-507b-478b-85b5-af65010db90d/fca2b3cc-dabe-4927-9d6b-af6e0007872e/468x382.jpg)
Three: Deck Hand R. Rossiter, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (SB.218, E. [sic] Rossiter. Sig. Boy. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (17996 D.A. R. Rossiter. D.H. R.N.R.) nearly very fine Three: Cook’s Mate G. Barner, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine 1914-15 Star (G. Barnber, Std. 2. M.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M.25549 G. Barber. Ck. Mte. R.N.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (George T. Barber) verdigris to Star, nearly very fine Pair: Fireman B. Mill, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary British War and Victory Medals (B. Mill. Fmn. M.F.A.) good very fine 1914-15 Star (K.15210, C. W. H. Rawlings, Act. L. Sto., R.N.) traces of verdigris, nearly very fine (9) £100-£140
Four: Marine C. P. Buckle, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who served ashore in the Dardanelles and France and with the Special Naval Party on the Caspian with Dunster Force in 1918 1914-15 Star (Ch.18269 C. P. Buckle. Pte. R.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.18269 Pte. C. P. Buckle. R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (Ch.18269 (Ch.B.2791) C. P. Buckle. Mne. R.F.R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160 --- Charles Peter Buckle was born at Tottingham Watton, Norfolk on 30 November 1895. He enlisted into in the Royal Marines on 9 December 1913, as Private at the Royal Marines Depot at Deal. He saw sea service in S.S. Duchess of Devon, which had been requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as an armed boarding steamer. He served in the Dardanelles with the M.E.F. in 1916 and from May 1916 to December 1917 served ashore in France receiving a gun shot wound to the left arm in February 1917. He subsequently served at Chatham, and was posted to H.M.S. Venus in 1918. In August 1918 he served ashore with the Special Naval Party with Dunster Force in the Caspian. He was discharged from Chatham Division in March 1922, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was awarded the Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service Medal in February 1934 and died at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in December 1992.
Three: Private T. J. E. Watts, Royal Marine Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (Ch.17058, Pte. T. J. E. Watts. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.17058 Pte. T. J. E. Watts. R.M.L.I.) nearly very fine Three: Private A. Gordon, Gordon Highlanders 1914-15 Star (9680 Pte. A. Gordon. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (9680 Pte. A. Gordon. Gord. Highrs.) suspension ring twisted on VM, nearly very fine Three: Private J. McCafferty, Royal Irish Rifles 1914-15 Star (2482 Pte. J. Mc Cafferty, R. Ir. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (2482 Pte. J. Mc Cafferty, R. Ir. Rif.) nearly very fine Pair: Lieutenant C. M. Wood, Liverpool Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. M. Wood.) nearly very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (S.M.P. M. Carmichael. Q.A.I.M.N.S.) edge nicks, very fine (12) £160-£200
Three: Battery Sergeant Major H. S. Greenwood, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches 1914-15 Star (32205 B.S. Mjr. H. S. Greenwood. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (32205 W.O. Cl. 2. H. S. Greenwood. R.A.) edge bruise to VM, nearly very fine 1914-15 Star (786 Dvr. A. Parker. R.F.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (38818 Pte. W. Marshall. D. of Corn. L.I.) Star heavily worn, therefore fair; VM nearly very fine (5) £50-£70 --- Horace Stanley Greenwood attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1914, being Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 30 January 1919). Alfred Parker attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 November 1915. He was discharged on 21 May 1919.
Four: Wheeler Sergeant R. Slocombe, Royal Army Service Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded an Immediate M.S.M. for Egypt 1914-15 Star (T4-058781 Whlr: Sjt. R. Slocombe. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (T4-058781 Sjt. R. Slocombe. A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T4-058781 Whlr: Sjt. R. Slocombe. R.A.S.C.) very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 22 January 1919 (Egypt). M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (Egypt). Robert Slocombe was born in Bridgewater, Somerset, in 1893 and served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War in Egypt from 31 March 1915. Demobilised to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 27 July 1919, he died in Bridgewater in 1928, aged 35. Sold with the recipient’s original Mentioned in Despatches Certificate.
Five: Sergeant J. H. Webb, Royal Army Medical Corps, later Royal Artillery 1914-15 Star (2115, Pte. J. H. Webb. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2115 Pte. J. H. Webb. R.A.M.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (493099 Pte. J. H. Webb. R.A.M.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (804753 Sjt. J. H. Webb. R.A.) light contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £160-£200 --- John H. Webb attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 December 1914. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 148 of April 1920.
Three: Private A. J. Cruse, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (54746. Pte. A. J. Cruse, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (54746 Pte. A. J. Cruse. R.A.M.C.) very fine Pair: Sapper A. E. Brill, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (522865 Spr. A. E. Brill. R.E.) edge bruise to BWM, very fine Pair: Private W. Gooch, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M2-048158 Pte. W. Gooch. A.S.C.) last letter of surname overstruck on BWM; together with an Army Temperance Association 1 Year Medal, silver, unnamed; and a 1906 ‘King’s Shilling’, nearly very fine Pair: Private J. F. Allen, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (499 Pte. J. F. Allen. R.A.M.C.) very fine (10) £100-£140
Three: Major R. D. Crew, 12th Frontier Force, Indian Army 1914-15 Star (Lt. R. D. Crew, 52 Sikhs F.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. R. D. Crew.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Major R. D. Crew.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Robert Douglas Crew was born in Bristol on 10 August 1890 and was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 January 1910, and arrived in India on 3 March of that year. Posted to the 52nd Sikhs, he was promoted Lieutenant on 29 April 1912 and served during the Great War in Egypt from November 1914 to August 1915 as a Company Officer attached to the 33rd Punjabis and Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding 32nd Brigade. Promoted Captain on 1 September 1915, he saw further service on the Western Front as Machine Gun Officer, Bareilly Brigade, from August to December 1915, and then Egypt and Aden for the rest of the War as Company Commander and Adjutant, attached variously to the 33rd Punjabis, 15th Sikhs, and 53rd Sikhs. Crew was appointed a Temporary Major at the Imperial School of Instruction, Zaitun, in September 1918, and was confirmed Major in the 2nd/12th Frontier Force Regiment (as the 52nd Sikhs had been re-numbered), on 20 January 1926. He was Officiating Second in Charge, 2/12th, Frontier Force Regiment, from 1929 to 1932, and retired on 22 February 1933. Sold with copied research.
Family group: Four: Sergeant H. A. Blakey, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (107110 Pte H. A. Blakey. 2/Can: Mtd: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (107110 A. Sjt. H. A. Blakey 2-C.M.R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (107110 A. Sjt. H. A. Blakey. Br. Col: R.) with named card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (E. M. Blakey. V.A.D.) with named card box of issue, and O.H.M.S. envelope addressed to Ellen Maud Blakey, officially renamed, good very fine (lot) £180-£220 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Harold Alfred Blakey was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire in April 1891, and was married to Ellen Maud Blakey. He served during the Great War with ‘C’ Squadron, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles on the Western Front.
Three: Private W. Sharpe, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at Dunkirk in 1940 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5335917. Pte. W. Sharpe. R. Berks.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- W. Sharpe served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and was taken Prisoner of War at Dunkirk in 1940. He was held at Lamsdorf Prisoner of War Camp.
Three: Major E. Cullen, British Columbia Dragoons, late Private, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (107145 Pte E. Cullen. 2/Can: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (107145 Pte. E. Cullen. 2-C.M.R.) good very fine Three: Sapper J. H. Cox, Canadian Engineers, who drowned when the hospital ship Anglia hit a mine returning from Calais to Dover, 17 November 1915 1914-15 Star (45 Spr: J. H. Cox. Can: Eng:); British War and Victory Medals (45 Spr. J. H. Cox. C.E.) with cap badge, generally very fine or better (6) £120-£160 --- Earle Cullen was born in Bolton, Lancashire in September 1892. He was a Locomotive Engineer, who served during the Great War with the 2nd Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles on the Western Front. Cullen re-engaged for service as a Captain with the British Columbia Dragoons in July 1940, and advanced to Major (entitled to CVSM, War Medal and Canadian Efficiency Decoration). John Herbert Cox was born in London in May 1880. He served during the Great War with the 4th Field Company, Canadian Engineers on the Western Front. Sapper Cox drowned, 17 November 1915, when travelling in H.M.H.S. Anglia. The latter was returning from Calais to Dover with 390 injured Officers and Other Ranks. Around 12.30 p.m. she struck a mine and sank in 15 minutes. Despite the assistance of nearby ships, 134 personnel were killed. Sapper Cox is commemorated on the Hollybrook War Memorial, Southampton, England.
Three: Sergeant J. W. Tully, 5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry 1914-15 Star (13558 Pte. J. W. Tully. 5/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (13558 Sjt. J. W. Tully. 5-Can. Inf.); together with the recipient’s cap badge, good very fine Three: Private A. Eade, Australian Imperial Force British War Medal 1914-20 (4484 A. Eade.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4484 A. Eade. A.I.F.); Defence Medal, mounted court-style as worn, the BWM and VM both somewhat later issues, lacquered, good very fine Pair: Private W. Smerdon, New Zealand Expeditionary Force British War and Victory Medals (64367 Pte. W. Smerdon. N.Z.E.F.) very fine (8) £100-£140 --- Sold with a book of autographs and various letters and paperwork relating to A. Eade.
Pair: Private R. W. Clearwater, 6th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Canadian Infantry 1914-15 Star (73533 Pte. R. W. Clearwater 6-Can. Inf. Bde. Hdqtrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (73533 Pte. R. W. Clearwater. 6-Can. I. Bde. H.Q.) nearly very fine Pair: Corporal T. W. Parker, 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (931337 Cpl. T. W. Parker. 72-Can. Inf.) very fine Pair: Sergeant J. S. Hibberd, Canadian Cyclist Battalion, later commissioned Lieutenant in the 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, with whom he died of wounds whilst serving near Cambrai, 29 September 1918 British War and Victory Medals (16848 Sjt. J. S. Hibberd. Can. Cyclist Bn.) suspension claw loose on BWM, otherwise good very fine (6) £100-£140 --- Ralph Wesley Clearwater was born in Groton, South Dakota, U.S.A. in April 1897. He was a motor vehicle mechanic by trade, and served during the Great War with 28th Battalion (Northwest), Canadian Infantry and 6th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Infantry. Thomas William Parker was born in Bridgwater, Somerset August 1885. He emigrated to Canada and resided in Waldo, British Columbia. John Swallow Hibberd was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in July 1878. He served initially served with the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, before being commissioned into the 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Lieutenant Hibberd ‘Died of Wounds [29 September 1918] - while second in command of “D” Company, which was marching to the rear near Cambrai under enemy shell fire, he was wounded in the stomach by shrapnel from an enemy shell which burst close to him. His wounds were dressed, and he was carried to the dressing station of the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion and later evacuated to No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station where he died.’ (CEF Burial Registers refers) Lieutenant Hibberd is buried in the Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France.
Pair: J. Fagg, Mercantile Marine, who survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk off the Kent coast in March 1917 British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James Fagg) good very fine Pair: A. J. Day, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Alfred J. Day) with Board of Trade Authority to Wear form, dated 13 November 1919, and signed by the recipient; and Board of Trade condolence enclosure for the actual medals, named to the recipient’s widow, and dated 24 February 1928, extremely fine Three: C. W. Rooke, Mercantile Marine and Royal Army Medical Corps British War Medal 1914-20 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Charles W. Rooke.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- James Fagg, a fisherman from Ramsgate, was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1887 and served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat off the Kent coast in March 1917 (Thanet Advertiser, 31 March 1917 refers).
Pair: Gunner E. Lucas, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (120392 Gnr. E. Lucas. R.A.) very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant S. B. Griffin, Royal Irish Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. S. B. Griffin.) mounted as worn, with named card box of issue, good very fine Pair: Private R. E. Coley, Light Infantry General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24363478 Pte R E Coley LI); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, heavy edge bruise to GSM at 3 o’clock, otherwise good very fine An unattributed pair of miniature dress medals General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Canal Zone; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army, mounted as worn, very fine (8) £100-£140 --- S. B. Griffin was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment on 1 July 1917.
Three: Driver Bahadur Khan, 8th Pack Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery British War Medal 1914-20 (997 Dvr. Bahadur Khan, 8-P. Bty....) ‘RGA’ erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (997 Dvr. Bahadur Khan, 8 Pack Bty. R.G.A.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (997 Dvr Bahadur Khan 8P Bty RGA) nearly very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (3061 Dfdr Wali Mohd, 10 Lcrs); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (4932 Sepoy Battan Singh, 21 Pjbis.; 255 Sowar Sohan Singh. 37 Lcrs.; 2678 Nk. Sham Singhbinshi. 1-39 R.G.R.; 1137 Sepoy Khushal Singh, 3-152 Pjbis.) generally good fine (8) £70-£90
Three: Private T. G. Walters, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, a prisoner of war at Messines in April 1918 British War and Victory Medals (12051 Pte. T. G. Walters. R.W.Fus.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (12051 Pte. T. G. Walters. R.W.Fus.) mounted on card for display, extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- Thomas George Walters was born at Pembroke on 1 June 1894, and enlisted on 1 March 1914, aged 19 years 9 months, a farmer by trade. He disembarked in France on 29 January 1918, and joined the 9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the field on 18 February 1918. He was taken prisoner at Messines on 12 April 1918, and held until repatriated on 12 November 1918. Sold with copied research.
Three: Lieutenant J. W. Sargeant, Supply and Transport Corps, Indian Army British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. W. Sargeant.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. J. W. Sargeant. S & T.C.) officially re-impressed; together with a duplicate British War Medal 1914-20 (20 Maj. J. W. Sargent.) official correction to rank, over-writing an earlier number on last, generally very fine (4) £100-£140 --- James William Sargeant attested for the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, on 14 March 1918, and saw further service with the 97th Brigade Supply Section, Supply and Transport Corps, during the Third Afghan War, and was advanced Major. Note: The recipient’s Medal Index Card notes that the recipient’s British War Medal was to be issued in India (presumably his service with the Indian Army did not qualify for the Victory Medal), and that his Victory Medal (for prior service with the Army Service Corps) was to be issued in Britain. Evidently he was issued two British War Medals by mistake, one through Britain and one through India.
Three: Sergeant R. Davies, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), later Royal Hampshire Regiment General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (23901396 Sgt. R. Davies DERR.); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (23901396 Sgt R Davies R Hamps) extremely fine (3) £80-£100
Pair: Private W. Taylor, 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (417119 Pte. W. Taylor. 24-Can. Inf.) good very fine Pair: Private J. V. Kirk, 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action whilst attached to the 1st Tank Battalion, 10 August 1918, when his tank was hit by an anti-tank shell and caught fire British War and Victory Medals (654056 Pte. J. V. Kirk. 47-Can. Inf.) generally good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (550270 Pte. T. Allen. R.C.D.) last with coloured photograph of recipient mounted on a horse, suspension reaffixed and mount altered to a brooch fitting, otherwise very fine (5) £140-£180 --- William Taylor was born in December 1877, and resided at 2454 Chabot Street, Montreal, Quebec. James Vincent Kirk was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in May 1898. He initially served during the Great War with the 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. On 8 August 1918 Kirk was attached to the 1st Tank Battalion for the attack on Arras. Two days later he was killed in action when his tank was hit by an anti-tank shell and caught fire. Private Kirk is buried in Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Timothy Robert Allen was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada in November 1895. He served during the Great War with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, and was killed in action, 23 March 1918. Private Allen is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Pair: Private T. Turner, 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (782208 Pte. T. Turner. 49-Can. Inf.) with named Great War Honourable Discharge Certificate, very fine British War 1914-20 (2) (1049043 Pte. C. Empey. C.F.C.; 755160 Pte. J. Tremblay. Can. Labr. Bn.) 1st with two shell cases, a button, lapel ephemera and photograph of recipient in uniform with his wife, suspension claw loose on 2nd; Victory Medal 1914-19 (150092 Pte. J. Gough. 16-Can. Inf.) otherwise very fine (lot) £60-£80 --- Thomas Turner was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne England in March 1879. He emigrated to Canada, and resided at 645 Stadacona East, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Turner served with the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front (entitled to Silver War Badge). Charles Nelson Empey was born in Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada in June 1868. He served during the Great War with Canadian Forestry Corps in Great Britain. Joseph Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada in January 1877. He was serving with the 52nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry when he died of an accident, 30 October 1918. Private Tremblay is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Pair: Private G. H. Morkill, 102nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (703424 Pte. G. H. Morkill. 102-Can. Inf.) planchets only, otherwise very fine 1914-15 Star (482 Spr: C. Grant. Can: Rly: Cons: C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (46971 Pte. J. G. MacDonald. 17-Can. Inf.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (18378 Cpl. F. C. Nicholls. 9-Can. Inf.) the VM a planchet only, generally very fine or better (lot) £50-£70 --- George Henry Morkill was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in April 1872. Charles Grant was born in Glasgow, Scotland in April 1871. He served during the Great War with the Railway Construction Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops on the Western Front. John George MacDonald was born in Westville, Nova Scotia, Canada in August 1892. He served during the Great War with the 17th Battalion, Canadian Infantry in the UK, and died of illness, 2 January 1915. Private MacDonald is buried in the Bulford Church Cemetery, Wiltshire. Frederick Charles Nicholls was born in Marbledown Parish, Kent in December 1890. He initially served during the Great War with the 9th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, before transferring to Canadian Cyclist Corps.
Pair: Private T. Tremblay, Canadian Forestry Corps British War and Victory Medals (1012161 Pte. T. Tremblay. C.F.C.) generally very fine or better British War Medal 1914-20 (2323446 A. Sjt. A. J. Fifer. C.F.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (9791 Pte. A. Gibb. 3-Can. Inf.; 775359 Pte. N. Oleinik. 3-Can. Inf.; 438042 A. Cpl. H. A. Wilson. 21-Can. Inf.; 1054780 Pte. A. Tremblay. 24 Can. Inf.) 2nd VM with 38th Battalion lapel badge, 3rd with riband bar, chevrons, wound stripe and other metal insignia, generally very fine (lot) £100-£140 --- Théodule Tremblay was born in St-Rémi, Quebec, Canada in April 1886. He during the Great War with the Canadian Forestry Corps on the Western Front. Arthur John Fifer was born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany in November 1872. He was an Accountant who resided in Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada prior to the Great War. Fifer served during the Great War with the Canadian Forestry Corps Depot, in the UK. Alexander Gibb was born in Chester, England in December 1876. He served during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion (Toronto Regiment), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Gibb was taken prisoner of war on the Western Front, 24 April 1915, and interned at Giessen. Nazar Oleinik was born in Podoski, Russia in July 1890. He resided in Toronto, Canada, and initially served during the Great War with the 38th Battalion (Ottawa), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Oleinik was was sentenced to Death for desertion, but had his sentence commuted two weeks later to 5 years penal servitude. Harold Aubry Wilson was born in Toronto, Canada in September 1893, and employed as a Railway Operator. He served during the Great War with the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Alfred Tremblay was born in Eboulements, Quebec, Canada in February 1894. He served during the Great War with the 24th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Tremblay received a gun shot wound to left leg and right hand during actions at Lens as part of the Battle of Hill 70. He was discharged as medically unfit and committed to psychiatric hospital upon discharge for service related psychosis.
Pair: Chief Engine Room Artificer B. H. L. Thompson, Royal Navy, who was killed in action on 5 September 1914, when H.M.S. Pathfinder was sunk by U21 in the Firth of Forth British War Medal 1914-20 (175938 B. H. L. Thompson. C.E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (175938 B. H. L. Thompson C.E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Shannon.) small dig to obverse of LSGC, otherwise very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Bernard Harry Leopold Thompson, a Turner from Greenwich, London, was born on 7 March 1872 and attested for the Royal Navy on 7 September 1893. His LSGC was traced on 10 October 1908 and he was advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st class, on 24 April 1911. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Pathfinder and was killed in action on 5 September 1914 when she was sunk in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, by a torpedo from U21, with the loss of 261 lives. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Sold with copy service record.
Pair: Observer A. G. W. Garett, Royal Observer Corps, late Armourer’s Crew, Royal Navy British War Medal 1914-20 (M.29664 A. G. W. Garrett. Ar. Cr. R.N.) in named card box of issue; Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (Observer A. G. W. Garrett.); together with the related miniature award for the latter, extremely fine (2) £140-£180
Pair: Commander W. F. Caborne, C.B., Royal Naval Reserve British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr. W. F. Caborne. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt hallmarks for London 1920, mounted court style, edge bruise to BWM, nearly extremely fine (2) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1991. C.B. (Civil) London Gazette 25 June 1897. Warren Frederick Caborne was born in 1849 and was formerly in the Mercantile Marine before becoming a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. He served as Nautical Assessor to H.M.’s Privy Council, Inspector to Board of Trade for Marine Inquiries, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical, Royal Geographical and Royal Meteorological Societies, and was Member of Council of the Royal Service Institution. He was also a Director of Sailors’ Homes, London Docks and Gravesend, Treasurer of St. Andrew’s Waterside Church Mission to Sailors, and an Honorary Commandant of the British Red Cross. He Commanded a transport during the Burma Expedition 1885-6; was subsequently in Egyptian Coast Guard Service; and was Assessor for Inquiries into Shipping Casualties, 1898-1914. He was Nautical Assessor to the Court of Appeal, and was British Nautical Assessor to the Canadian Royal Commission to enquire into loss of Empress of Ireland in 1914. He served during the Great War in the Naval Ordnance Department as Assistant Inspector of Steel, and was awarded the Naval Reserve Officers’ Decoration; he was also the author of numerous articles on naval and other subjects.
Five: Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer C. H. Williamson, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve British War Medal 1914-20 (M10218 C. H. Williamson. S.B.A. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (1342. C. H. Williamson, Sen. R.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension with two additional service bars (5259. Pte. C. Williamson. Wheat Sheaf Div. No. 3 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1926) mounted on card for display, good very fine (5) £180-£220 --- Charles Henry Williamson was born in Leicester on 8 April 1896. A Chatham rating, he was enlisted for 1 year on 2 August 1914 this being extended to hostilities on 1 August 1915. He served throughout the war at Queensferry Hospital, borne on the books of Crescent, earning the British War Medal. He re-engaged for hostilities only on 28 September 1938, and re-engaged until end of present emergency on 27 August 1939. During the Second War he served at Gloucester II from September to December 1939, R.N.H. Chatham from January to July 1940, and was then serving in H.M.S. Prosperine, at Lyness in Orkney, used by Scapa Flow, for the remainder of the war. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal on 8 September 1920, and the Bar on 12 August 1932. Sold with original Certificate of Service.
Four: Senior Reserve Attendant H. W. Read, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve British War Medal 1914-20 (M.9155 H. W. Read. S.R.A. R.N.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Harold Walter Read); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Pte. H. Read.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension with contemporary ‘5 Years Service’ bar (1396 Sergt. H. W. Read. Alverstoke Divn. No. 2 Dist. 1918) mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- I.S.M. London Gazette 17 August 1928: ‘Established Coppersmith, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth.’ Harold Walter Read was born at Gosport on 3 July 1872, and was a Coppersmith by trade when he enlisted into the Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve for 1 year on 2 August 1914, having previous service with the St John Ambulance Brigade. His only appointment was to R.N.H. Haslar, where he extended his service in 1915 for ‘hostilities’. However, during the latter part of 1916 he was discharged from the R.N.A.S.B.R. in order that he could return to his work as a Coppersmith in H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (No. 2352 John. Richardson. 49th...) depot impressed naming, suspension claw re-affixed, heavy contact marks that partially obscure naming, and clasp carriage broken and repaired in places, thus overall fair, scarce to unit £300-£400 --- Provenance: Jack Webb Collection; Glendining’s, September 1988. John Richardson was born in Biggleswade and attested there for the 49th Regiment of Foot on 28 January 1846. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea for 1 year and 11 months, and was one of only 2 officer and 16 other ranks from the Regiment present at Balaklava. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, on 20 October 1865, and was discharged on 5 April 1867.
Three: Major C. G. H. Danby, East India Railway Volunteer Rifles, Indian Defence Force British War Medal 1914-20 (Major C. G. H. Danby.); Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘Captn. & Hony. Maj. C. G. H. Danby 7th. E.I. Rly. Bn. I.D.F.) with integral top riband bar; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Capt. & Hony. Major. C. J. H. Danby. E.I. Ry. V.R.) minor edge bruise to last, generally good very fine (3) £300-£400
Four: Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class L. H. Doran Royal Navy, who was killed in action in the submarine H.M.S. P-33, when she was sunk by a depth charge on 20 August 1944 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Laurence Hugh Dolan was born in Barry, Glamorganshire, on 7 June 1907 and attested for the Royal Naval Reserve, serving during the Second World War in the U-class submarine H.M.S. P-33. Attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based at Malta, on 15 July 1941, she sunk the 5,300 ton motor-vessel Barbarigo south of Punta Sciaccazza, Pantelleria, part of a small Italian convoy. The submarine departed on her final patrol on 6 August 1941 from Malta to patrol off Sicily to intercept an Italian convoy heading towards Libya. Her sister boat P-32, which was attacking the same convoy along with H.M.S. Unique, reported hearing a prolonged depth charge attack on 18 August and subsequently attempted unsuccessfully to contact P-33. P-32 was herself sunk later that day. P-33 became overdue on 20 August, having almost certainly been sunk during this attack. Dolan is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Five: Attributed to Corporal G. Bonsall, Royal Tank Regiment, formerly 13th and 11th Hussars 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; all privately named in small neat impressed capitals ‘Corporal G. Bonsall., mounted as worn in the incorrect order; together with the riband bar for the first three; cloth corporal’s stripes; Royal Armoured Corps King’s Crown cap badge in white metal; cloth Royal Armoured corps tank sleeve badge; a scarce 23rd Armoured Brigade embroidered cloth formation badge; and Royal Tank Regiment Old Comrades Club lapel badge, enamelled base metal with white metal applique tank to centre, generally very fine 1939-45 Star (4); Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; Italy Star (2); Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45 (6), all unnamed as issued, with various named card boxes of issue and a Royal British Legion lapel badge, generally good very fine and better (21) £70-£90 --- George Bonsall was born in Ripley, Derbyshire, and first attested for service in the 13th Hussars, at Nottingham on 10 June 1919, at the age of 18. He transferred to the 11th Hussars in February 1921, and served in Egypt and India. He re-engaged for service in June 1931, being re-numbered 535571. He again re-engaged in June 1935, and was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1939, but was recalled for service in the Royal Tank Regiment in the Second World War.
Five: Attributed to Leading Aircraftman F. J. Farley, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure and named provisional authority to wear form, in card box of issue addressed to ‘F. J. Farley, Esq., 113 Pears Road, Hounslow, Middlesex.’, extremely fine 1939-45 Star (3); Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45 (4); South Africa Medal for War Service (D. E. Summerfield.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with Second Award Bar, unnamed, mounted variously as worn, generally good very fine Miniature Medals: 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45 (2), mounted variously as worn, very fine (24) £160-£200 --- Sold with a Royal Artillery cap badge and a Gordon Highlanders glengarry badge.
A Second War ‘Battle of Britain’ Hurricane Pilot’s campaign group of three awarded to Pilot Officer P. Kennett, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew operationally with 3 and 605 Squadrons during the Battle, and having volunteered for overseas service in March 1941, was shot down and killed in the process of claiming a shared probably destroyed Ju88 off Malta, on 11 April 1941 1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Battle of Britain; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘T. Kennett, Esq., Braeside, Pear Tree Lane, Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex’; Memorial Scroll ‘Pilot Officer P. Kennett, Royal Air Force’, nearly extremely fine (4) £3,600-£4,400 --- Peter Kennett was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, in May 1919, the son of Thomas Kennett, M.B.E., and was educated at Windsor House School, Slough and Cranbrook. At the latter he was a member of the Officer Training Corps, and he joined the Luton Squadron of the Voluntary Reserve as an Airman u/t Pilot in June 1939. Kennett was mobilised with the outbreak of the Second War, and was commissioned Pilot Officer (on probation), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in July 1940. He was initially posted as a Pilot for operational service to 3 Squadron (Hurricanes), Turnhouse, Scotland, at the start of September 1940. He transferred to 605 Squadron (Hurricanes), Croydon, 30 September 1940, however, this posting was equally short-lived as he returned to 3 Squadron, now at Castletown, 17 October 1940. He flew in various scrambles with the squadron, before being posted to 46 Squadron, North Weald, in November 1940. Kennett moved with the Squadron to Digby in December, and flew in several patrols before being transferred to 17 Squadron, Martlesham, 21 December 1940. Mainly tasked with fighter sweeps, Kennett continued to serve with 17 Squadron until he volunteered for an overseas posting in March 1941. He sailed in H.M.S. Ark Royal for Malta, flying his Hurricane off the carrier on 3 April 1941. Upon arrival Kennett joined 261 Squadron flying out of Ta Kali, and this time his posting was all too short for differing reasons: ‘A relatively strong force of fighters approached Malta on 11 April [1941], apparently as cover for a Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft. Twelve MC200s of the 17 Gruppo under the command of Magg. Bruno Brambilla, covered by six CR 42s from the 23 Gruppo led by Ten. Col. Falconi, swept over the island, while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location. Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning. Sgt. Deacon made his first sortie in V3978, seeing five CR 42s, but being unable to engage these. A little later two of the new Hurricane IIs, flown by Plt. Off. Peter Kennett and Sgt. Waghorn, intercepted a Ju88 and were reported to have shot it down. At that moment both were bounced by Bf109s, and were shot down. Their aircraft, Z3036 and Z2904, both crashed into the sea; Kennett got out and was seen by Sqn. Ldr. Lambert swimming and waving vigorously. However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on, and he was dead when eventually picked up; Waghorn was also killed. Recorded Westmacott that evening: “Plt. Off. Kennett and Sgt. Waghorn killed... It is the same old story - no one was looking behind. It is frightfully difficult to make inexperienced pilots realise the necessity of even so small a formation as two aircraft keeping one up above looking out while the other is attacking the Hun... Not very long ago he (Kennett) told me he was sure he was going to be killed.” ‘ (Hurricanes over Malta, refers) Kennett and Waghorn were posthumously credited with a Ju88 shared probably destroyed. Both were buried next to each other in Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta. Sold with the recipient’s original Commission Document, dated 27 July 1940; a Letter of Condolence to the recipient’s father from his son’s Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader R. Lambert, dated 12 April 1941; five original photographs of the recipient’s funeral in Malta; and a file of copied research. For the M.B.E. pair awarded to the recipient’s father, see Lot 134.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private R. N. Coleman, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 16 August 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R. (203141 Pte. R. N. Coleman. 2/R. Berks: R.) minor edge nick, the obverse polished and worn, therefore fine, the reverse better £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917. Raymond Noel Coleman was born at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Cheltenham. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Sergeant W. Kelly, 66th Regiment of Foot, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1336. Sergt. W. Kelly. 66th. Foot.) pawnbroker’s mark to obverse field, minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: J. B. Hayward, December 1975. William Kelly attested for the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot and served with the Regiment in Afghanistan during the Second Afghan War. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880, ‘one of the grandest examples of heroism in the annals of war’, where the Regiment lost its Colours and 10 officers and 275 other ranks were killed. Following the loss of the 66th Foot’s Colours at Maiwand, and those of the 24th Foot at Isandhlwana the previous year, the British Army soon after ended the tradition of carrying Colours into battle; the last occasion on which Colours were carried into Battle being by the 58th Foot at Laing’s Nek on 28 January 1881.
Three: Sergeant D. K. Taylor, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Rhodesian-born Wellington Pilot with 37 Squadron who was killed in action on his 18th Operational Sortie whilst on a bombing raid over Benghazi on 1 August 1941 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with the related miniature awards, all mounted for display purposes with various metal and cloth badges and insignia, the Stars all heavily lacquered, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- Dennis Kibbey Taylor was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 15 May 1919 and was educated at Prince Edward Boys’ High School, Salisbury. He joined the Rhodesian Air Training Group in 1940 and began his flying training at No. 25 Elementary Flying Training School in May 1940. He qualified as a Pilot on 13 September 1940, and having been posted to 37 Squadron (Wellingtons), based at R.A.F. Sallufa, North Africa, in February 1941, flew his first operational sortie, a bombing raid on Rhodes, on 10 March 1941. Further raids included Scarpanto, Rhodes (2), Sofia, Prilep, Benghazi (5), Derna (2), Menidi, Gazala, Beirut, and Elevisis. He was killed in action on his 18th Operational Sortie when, on a raid on Benghazi on 1 August 1941, his Wellington A1067 crashed into the Mediterranean near the coast west of Sollum. He is commemorated alongside his crew on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt; it is believed that he is the only Rhodesian born pilot commemorated on the Alamein Memorial. Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering his entire flying career; and copied research.
Seven: C. Williams, Canadian Forces 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (D-800165 C. Williams); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (D-800165 C. Williams) mounted court-style as worn; together with a Korea Volunteer Service Medal 1950-54, unnamed as issued, heavily lacquered and the three bronze awards gilded, good very fine (8) £140-£180
Six: Sergeant D. J. Charbonneau, Canadian Forces Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SC-44580 D. J. Charbonneau); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SC-44580 D. J. Charbonneau); Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Sgt. D. J. Charbonneau); Canadian Centenary Medal 1867-1967, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (6) £120-£160
Five: Flight Lieutenant R. Evans, who served during the Second World War with the Cheshire Home Guard, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy; and later with the South African Air Force and the Rhodesian Air Force Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (445 Chf. Tech. Evans. R.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (445 Chf. Tech. Evans R.); Rhodesia, General Service Medal (Fg. Off. R. Evans.) mounted for display purposes on a velvet cloth with the recipient’s cap badge, Warrant patch, and shoulder boards, light contact marks, good very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Robert Evans was born in Chester on 4 September 1924 and served during the Second World War initially in “C” Company, 6th Cheshire (City of Chester) Battalion, Home Guard, from 16 August 1941 to 18 November 1942. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 19 November 1942 and served with them as a Fitter Second Class, before transferring once again to the Royal Navy as an Air Fitter (A) from 3 May 1945. He was released Class ‘A’ Reserve on 20 August 1946. Evans subsequently served with the South African Air Force as a Fitter Second Class from 9 June 1946 to 8 June 1951, and then with the Rhodesian Air Force from 4 September 1951 to 4 September 1974, being advanced Warrant Officer Class 1 on 10 September 1962, and Flying Officer on 20 March 1969. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 June 1963, and was discharged with the rank of Flight Lieutenant, his last appointment being Officer Commanding, Aeronautical Inspection Services. Sold with the recipient’s three card identity discs and an Airman’s trade patch; original Royal Air Force Certificate of Service and Discharge; Royal Air Force Airman’s Service and Pay Book; Royal Navy Parchment Certificate of Service; Union Defence Force Certificate of Service; Rhodesian Air Force Certificate of Service; Warrant appointing him a Warrant Officer Class I, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Air Force, dated 10 September 1962; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Loyal Service Certificate, dated 31 December 1963; various official letters regarding his medal entitlement; a photograph of the recipient receiving his Long Service Medal from Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland at Salisbury on 8 June 1963; and other ephemera.
Four: Warrant Officer Class I W. J. Callan, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Northern Ireland (22274019 W.O. Cl. 1. W. J. Callan. REME.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., unrecorded ‘crowned head’ issue (22274019 W.O. Cl. 2. W. J. Callan. REME.) with named card box of issue; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22274019 W.O. Cl. 2. W. J. Callan. REME.) mounted court-style as worn, the MSM a rare ‘crowned head’ issue, about extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Meritorious Service Medals awarded during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II typically have the young head reverse with the Queen wearing a laurel leaf wreath; very few other examples of the crowned head M.S.M. have appeared on the market and so it is possible that the medal issued to Callan is a ‘mule’, struck using the incorrect combination of dies.
To Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. Audacious, 1st August, 1798 I have the satisfaction to tell you the French Ship, Le Conquerant has struck to the Audacious and I have her in possession. The slaughter on board her is dreadful: her Captain is dying. We have but one killed, but a great many wounded. Our fore and mainmast are wounded, but I hope not very bad. They tell me the foremast is the worst. I give you joy. This is a glorious victory. I am, with the utmost respect, yours in haste. D. Gould. The Important ‘Battle of the Nile 1798’ Post Captain’s Naval Gold Medal awarded to Davidge Gould, Captain of the 74-gun H.M.S. Audacious, who fought in many ‘Boat Actions’ during the American Revolutionary War and enabled the capture of two French capital ships off Genoa in 1795. At the Battle of the Nile, he sailed Audacious inshore of the French line and took Le Conquerant after a desperate close-range fight, then helped batter Guerrier and Spartiate into their submissions. Gould was soon embroiled in the controversy around Lord Nelson’s affair with Lady Emma Hamilton; he finally became Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom, and was the last surviving member of Nelson’s famous ‘Band of Brothers’ Naval Small Gold Medal 1794-1815, the reverse engraved in capitals ‘DAVIDGE GOULD ESQUIRE CAPTAIN OF H.M.S. THE AUDACIOUS ON THE 1 of AUGUST MDCCXCVIII + THE FRENCH FLEET DEFEATED+’. Early Naval Gold Medals were inscribed with ‘The’ between H.M.S. and the ship’s name, but this is omitted in later Naval Gold Medals (Douglas-Morris ‘Naval Medals 1793-1856’ p13 refers). Lacking gold ribbon buckle (therefore was probably worn from a left-hand buttonhole) and enclosed in its original lunettes, extremely fine £80,000-£100,000 --- Provenance: Hamilton-Smith collection; Glendining November 1927; W. Waite Sanderson collection, Glendining November 1941; Glendining September 1991. Davidge Gould was born at Bridgewater, Somerset in 1758, the youngest son of William Gould of Sharpham Park. He entered the Navy at the age of 13 in May 1772 as a volunteer on H.M.S. Alarm, a 32-gun frigate which was the first Royal Navy ship to have a fully copper-sheathed bottom. Early Career Gould served in frigates in the Mediterranean and then in North America, where he spent four years as a Midshipman on Captain Hyde Parker’s 44-gun H.M.S. Phoenix during the early part of the First American War. The teenage Midshipman Gould was “much engaged in attacking the enemy’s batteries, cutting out their vessels, and contesting, not without loss, with their boats up the North [now called the Hudson] River” (O’Bryne’s Naval Biography refers). On 7 May 1779, after seven years at sea, Gould was promoted to Lieutenant. He moved into his first 74-gun line-of-battle ship, H.M.S. Conqueror, and took part in the Battle of the Saintes on 9-12 April 1782. The British fleet (36 ships of the line, commanded by Admiral Rodney) achieved a decisive victory over a combined French and Spanish fleet of 47 ships. Conqueror lost 7 men killed and 23 wounded. As a reward for his conduct in the battle, Gould was appointed First Lieutenant of Rodney’s 98-gun flagship and on 13 June 1782 was promoted Master and Commander of the fire-sloop Pachahunter, based in Jamaica. In 1787 he was appointed to command a former Dutch privateer, H.M.S. Pylades (18), which built up a considerable reputation as an effective anti-smuggling vessel cruising off Start Point in Devon. In between commissions, Gould appears to have spent about four years on half-pay. Thanks to the Spanish and Russian war scares, on 17 March 1789, aged 30, Gould was made a Post Captain. He was appointed to the command of frigates in the West Indies and the Mediterranean, where he was part of Admiral Hood’s fleet sent to drive the French out of Corsica. He was present at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi (where Captain Nelson was blinded in an eye) and was given his first command of a 74, the 20-year-old H.M.S. Bedford. The Battle of Genoa 1795 Gould’s first fleet action as Post Captain of Bedford took place in March 1795, when Vice-Admiral Hotham brought to battle off Genoa a French squadron carrying troops intended to recapture Corsica. On 13 March Ca Ira (80) lost her fore and main topmasts in a collision with another French ship. Falling behind the retreating French squadron, Ca Ira soon had to be taken in tow. She was attacked by Captain Nelson in his 64-gun Agamemnon and the 74-gun Captain, until the French squadron returned and drove them off, despite Gould’s attempts to engage the French flagship, the 120-gun Sans-Cullotte. At dawn the next day Ca Ira, while being towed by the 74-gun Censeur, was isolated, having fallen well behind the main body of the French squadron during the night. In contrast, the British fleet was advantageously placed to windward. Hotham signalled the 74-gun warships Captain and Gould’s Bedford to close and attack Censeur and Ca Ira. The two British ships had to endure raking fire from both French broadsides (some 1,500lbs of metal) as they approached, before they could bring their own guns to bear. They battered the French for 75 minutes, until Captain, which had suffered severe damage to her sails, rigging, and stays, signalled to be towed out of the action. Hotham saw that Bedford had also had her sails and rigging badly cut up and sent two other 74s to relieve them. Five men were killed on Captain and seven wounded. Bedford had seven killed and eighteen wounded, including her First Lieutenant. By this time Ca Ira and Censeur had been heavily damaged and reduced to almost defenceless hulks, suffering over 400 casualties. The French Admiral abandoned them to their fate, and they duly surrendered to Nelson. Joining the Audacious and Nelson’s ‘Band of Brothers’ By autumn 1795 Gould, now 37, had turned over command of Bedford. His next ship was H.M.S. Audacious, ten years old and with a 781lb broadside, assigned to Sir John Jervis’s Mediterranean fleet. “Under Jervis, the captains of the Mediterranean fleet were becoming a brotherhood, bonded by skill, experience, mutual respect and a common cause. Maybe they had not thought of it in that way before; but from about this time they all did, and Nelson most of all. And the concept - so suitable to his nature - became an important, conscious element in his conduct of the war.” (Howarth, Nelson – The Immortal Memory refers). Southey (Life of Nelson p 127) quotes a letter in which Nelson used his famous phrase “The Band of Brothers” (a quotation from Shakespeare’s Henry V Act 4 scene 3 ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’) in 1797: “Such a gallant set of fellows! Such a band of brothers! My heart swells at the thought of them!” After the Nile, Nelson wrote a number of letters and dispatches, often using the term ‘band of brothers’ to refer to the fourteen Captains who had fought under him. To Lord St Vincent, referring to Alexander Ball: “His activity and zeal are eminently conspicuous even amongst the Band of Brothers - each, as I may have occasion to mention them, must call forth my gratitude and admiration.” And on 8 January 1799 to Earl Howe, “I had the happiness to command a Band of Brothers...” Nelson had already served alongside several of the future ‘Band of the Nile Brothers’. He knew Gould from Corsica and the Battle of Genoa. Nelson's ability to deeply understand, trust and inspire his fleet Captains, through close consultations with them prior to actions, enabled him to leave them free to fight their ships as they beli...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Nive (F. Marsden, 3rd Foot Gds.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise about nearly very fine £700-£900 --- Roll shows additional entitlement to clasp for St Sebastian but this action occurred prior to his enlistment and medal appears to be as issued. Francis Marsden was born in Derby and enlisted into the 3rd Foot Guards at London on 25 September 1813, aged 21, for unlimited service. He served 14 years and 55 days, including 2 years allowance for Waterloo, and was discharged at London on 19 November 1825, in consequence of ‘being wounded in the [right] thigh at Waterloo, contracted fingers of left hand and defective vision of right eye’, to which note the surgeon has added ‘& in both legs at Bayonne’. He was admitted to an Out-pension of 9d per diem on 25 November 1825, increased to 1/- from 24 May 1839. Sold with copied discharge papers.
‘Probably the Finest Known’ example of Alexander Davison’s Medal for Trafalgar, believed to have been presented by Nelson’s Prize Agent to the crew of the Flagship H.M.S. Victory and intended for wear by those sailors attending Nelson’s State Funeral ceremonies in January 1806 Alexander Davison’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, pewter, contained in copper frame as usual with integral loop and split ring for suspension, unnamed as issued, extremely fine as struck £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Spink, May 2003. It is believed that copper-rimmed pewter medals commemorating Nelson and H.M.S. Victory (designed by T Halliday) were hastily commissioned by Alexander Davison, Nelson’s Agent, for award to the crew of H.M.S. Victory who took part in the battle and were in London at the time of Nelson’s State Funeral, with the intention that Victory’s crew members would wear them during the funeral ceremonies and the great procession. When Victory returned to England carrying Nelson’s body, most members of her crew volunteered to be brought to London to participate in the various memorial ceremonies which lasted for over five days, culminating in the great funeral procession through the streets from the Admiralty in Whitehall to St Paul’s Cathedral on 9 January 1806.
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, bronzed copper, impressed in the reverse field ‘John Potts, Midsm. HMS. Conqueror’, fitted with claw and ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005. John Potts entered the Royal Navy on 7 October 1800, as a First Class Volunteer on board the Assistance 50 guns, in which ship, having attained the rating of Midshipman, he was wrecked between Dunkirk and Gravelines on 29 March 1802. Joining next, in March, 1803, the Conqueror 74 guns, he served under Captain Israel Pellew in Nelson's pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. On 7 May, 1808, a few days after his removal to the Hibernia 120 guns, flagship of Sir Charles Cotton at Lisbon, Potts was made Lieutenant into the Eclipse sloop; and in that vessel he was employed, on the Channel, East and West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until July, 1814. He remained thenceforward on half-pay. He died in 1847. Note: Bronzed copper medals were struck by the Soho Mint as specimens or souvenirs and not for award to participants in the battle of Trafalgar.
The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant W. A. Griffiths, 23rd Foot, who was wounded in the left arm at Salamanca, slightly wounded at the storming of San Sebastian, and by a gun shot wound in the right thigh at Waterloo Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. W. A. Griffiths, 23rd Regiment Foot, R.W.F.) fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension, minor edge bruises and a little polished, otherwise very fine £4,600-£5,500 --- William A. Griffiths was born at Wrexham, Denbighshire, on 14 February 1792. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 23rd Foot from the Denbigh Militia on 14 March 1811, and promoted 1st Lieutenant on 13 May 1812. He served in the Peninsula from January 1812 to September 1813 and was present at the ‘Siege and Storming of Badajoz 6 April 1812. Battle of Salamanca 22nd July 1812. Battle of Waterloo 18th June 1815.’ ‘Received a gun shot wound in left arm at Salamanca 22nd July 1812. Received a gun shot wound at Waterloo in the right thigh 18th June 1815. One years pay received.’ He is also listed in the London Gazette as having been slightly wounded at the storming of San Sebastian, 31 August 1813, but this is not recorded in his 1829 Statement of Service. He served at Waterloo in the Grenadier Company and is noted in the North Wales Gazette as having been severely wounded. He was appointed Depot Paymaster in April 1828 and promoted to regimental Paymaster on 12 October 1830. Placed on Half Pay in 1831, he died in 1832.
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