Four: Colour Serjeant Thomas Dillon, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers india General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (2309 Sergt., 2d Bn. Ryl. Innis. Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (2309 Clr.-Serjt., Rl. Innis. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2309 C. Sjt., Rl. Innis. Fus.), mounted as worn; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (2309 C. Sjt., R. Innis. Fus), first three with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine; last nearly extremely fine (4) £600-800 Thomas Dillon was born in Navan, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. A Carpenter by occupation, he attested for service in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 3 October 1887, aged 17 years, 9 months. With them he served in India, December 1888-January 1902; South Africa, January 1902-October 1903, and Egypt, October-December 1903. Attaining the rank of Colour Serjeant in December 1903, he was discharged at the termination of his second period of service in October 1908. He was awarded the M.S.M. in 1945. Sold with a framed (faded) photograph of Colour Serjeant Dillon on a camel by the Sphinx; also with copied service papers. £600-£800
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Four: Private Richard Boulton, Devonshire Regiment india General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3095 Pte., 1st Bn. Devon R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3095 Pte., Devon Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3095 Pte., Devon Regt.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Richard Boulton), mounted court style for display, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £260-300 i.S.M. London Gazette 13 February 1934. ‘Postman, Fairford Sub-Office, Cirencester’. richard Bulton was born in Fairford, Gloucestershire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in th Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 11 October 1890, aged 18 years, 2 months. With the 1st Battalion he served in Egypt, January 1891-December 1892 and India, December 1892-December 1898. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 20 December 1898. Recalled to Army Service on 7 October 1899, he served with the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment in South Africa, October 1899-September 1902. He was finally discharged on 5 October 1902. sold with copied service papers and roll and gazette extracts. £260-£300
Seven: Serjeant Frederick Brooks, Rand Rifles, late Rifle Brigade queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3213 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (Pte., Rand Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (Sjt., Rand Rifles); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £650-750 frederick Brooks was born in Edmonton, London. A Gardener by occupation and a serving member of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Middlesex Regiment, he attested for the Rifle Brigade at Hounslow on 6 April 1894, aged 18 years 5 months. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served initially in the U.K. and qualified for Mounted Infantry duties on 24 June 1895. He embarked for Malta on 23 September 1897 and from there joined the Nile Expedition, landing in Egypt on 12 July 1897. With the Rifle Brigade he served at the battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898. The following month he was posted to Crete as a result of the troubles there. On 1 October 1899 he embarked for South Africa where he participated in the defence of Ladysmith. Brooks remained in South Africa after transferring to the Army Reserve on 29 September 1902 and discharge on 5 April 1906. With the onset of the Great War he enlisted into the Rand Rifles and was finally discharged on 11 February 1922. sold with copied ‘Rifle Brigade’ service papers. £650-£750
The group of five medals awarded to Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) R. H. W. Brewis, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 18 December 1914 queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt., 1/R. War. R.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Major, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut., 1st Royal Warwickshire Regt.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Henry Watkin Brewis), first and last with edge bruising and some contact marks, very fine and better (6) £2000-2500 m.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915. robert Henry Watkin Brewis was born on 29 September 1873, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Brewis of Ibstone, Oxfordshire. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Militia) on 24 March 1892; he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1894. Transferring then to the Regular Army, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regimet on 28 August 1895, being promoted to Lieutenant in April 1898. With the 1st battalion he served in the Sudan Expedition and was present at the battles of Atbara and Omdurman. Promoted to Captain in March 1900, he served as Adjutant, July 1907-July 1910. In April 1911 he was appointed Adjutant and Quartermaster (graded as Staff Captain) at the Staff College. In December 1912 he was promoted to Major. With the onset of war he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war. There, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and in command of the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 18 December 1914, aged 41 years, whilst leading an attack on the German trenches at Bois Grenier before Le Maisnil. In the attack, of the 22 officers and 939 other ranks mustered, Lieutenant-Clonel Brewis and eight other officers were killed, two were wounded and one missing, and the total casualties to the other ranks neared 300. General Capper in a Divisional Order congratulated the battalion on their ‘gallant effort, which though unsuccessful had been of great use and service to the general plans of the Allied Army’. Lieutenant-Colonel Brewis was originally buried in the Fleurbaise Churchyard and later reburied at Sailly-sur-la-Lys Churchyard, near Armentieres. sold with a quantity of copied photographs, copied letters, newspaper cuttings and documents and other copied research. Amongst them is a copied letter from a brother officer to Mrs Brewis of 86 Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7, ‘... On December 19th the Germans allowed us a short time to collect our dead from off their wire. Lt. Col. Strevens M.C. or lieut. as he was then found Major Brewis’ body on their wire & was able to bring it to our trenches. He was the only body the Germans allowed us to bring in. The rest were buried as they fell. We were able to carry his body back to the Regimental transport and he was buried with as full military honours as was possible in Fleurbaise churchyard ....’ The five medals in a wooden glass-fronted case; the Plaque and Memorial Scroll in a matching wooden glass-fronted case. Note: glass not suitable for posting. £2000-£2500
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. G. Tulloch, Royal West Kent Regiment, who served in the Boer War, was twice wounded and awarded the D.S.O. in the Great War and was murdered during the Mau Mau rebellion queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., 2/R.W. Kent Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Rl. W. Kent Rgt.) both suspensions re-pinned, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £350-450 D.S.O. London Gazette 18 February 1915. m.I.D. London Gazette 19 October 1914 & 17 February 1915. richard Murray Gregorie Tulloch was born on 20 May 1878, the youngest of five sons of General Sir Bruce Tulloch, K.C.B., C.M.G. He was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in September 1897 and was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1899. He served with the regiment in the Boer War, participating in operations in Orange Free State, April-May 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May 1900-September 1901, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen, 1-29 July 1900; operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; operations in Transvaal, September-November 1901; operations in the Orange River Colony, November 1901-April 1902, and operations on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, September-October 1901. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was Adjutant of the Regiment, November 1907-August 1909 and Adjutant of the Special Reserves, August 1910-January 1912. serving with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, he served with the B.E.F. as officer commanding ‘D’ Company. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 August 1914. He was wounded in the head at Le Cateau on 27 August 1914. Returning to England briefly to recover, he returned to his regiment on 18 September 1914. He later participated in the battle of Neuve Chapelle and was badly wounded when a shell burst close by him. He was again invalided to England to recover. For his services in these early actions, he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to Major in May 1915, he was G.S.O.2 and G.S.O.3, employed at the training centre at Ripon, June 1915-April 1916. He was G.S.O.2 64th Division, Home Forces, September 1916-March 1917 and G.S.O.2 11th Army Corps, May-July 1917 and Chief Instructor at the Instructional School at Berkhampstead, May-July 1918. During July 1918-July 1920 he was G.S.O.2 at the Training School at Berkhampstead and was Chief Instructor of History and Tactics at the R.M.A., July 1920-August 1922. For his continued wartime services he was given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1919. He retired from the Army in 1923. in the later 1920’s he emigrated to Kenya. On 9 October 1952, he and his wife were attacked in their home at Kinankop, 10 miles from Nairobi, situated on the edge of the Kikuyu Reserve, by a gang of five Africans armed with long knives - Colonel Tulloch being killed in the attack. sold with a bound folder containing research on the recipient and the Tulloch family. £350-£450
Five: Quartermaster and Lieutenant H. W. Johnson, York and Lancaster Regiment queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (5033 Pte., 1 Yk. & Lanc. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (5033 S. Mjr., York & Lanc. R); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5033 Sjt., York & Lanc. Regt.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £200-260 Henry William Johnson served in the 1st Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in South Africa and was awarded the Q.S.A. with three clasps; the medal being delivered to him when serving with the 2nd Battalion in India. With the onset of the Great War, Johnson was serving as a Sergeant-Major in the York and Lancaster Regiment, attached to the Nigeria Regiment. He was later commissioned a Quartermaster and Lieutenant. Sold with copied Q.S.A. roll extract and m.i.c. £200-£260
Family group: four: Sapper W. Higgins, Royal Engineers, late East Yorkshire Regiment, who died, 4 January 1918 queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4661 Pte., East Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4661 Pte., E. York. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (16773 Pte., E. York. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (16773 Pte., E. York. R.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Higgins), in card envelope; together with an erased British War Medal 1914-20 five: H. R. Shaw, British Army 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, very fine and better (11) £220-260 Walter Higgins was born in Manchester, and living in Brimington, Derbyshire, enlisted at Chesterfield. Serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment in South Africa, he was attached to the 5th Mounted Infantry. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 July 1915. He later transferred to the 58th Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers, as Sapper 247267. He died on 4 January 1918 and was buried in the Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte. He was the son of John and Ann Higgins of Brimington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. sold with letter to Mrs Higgins, the wife of Walter, from Lieutenant G. Salway Nicol, C.O. 58th A.W. Coy., R.E., dated 14 January 1918, expressing sympathy on behalf of the officers and men of the unit; Memorial Plaque enclosure; a letter re. employment to Mrs A. Shaw of Brimington, in envelope dated 2 August 1940. Medals to Shaw in card forwarding box, with forwarding slip, addressed to Mr H. R. Shaw of 16 Cemetery Terrace, Chesterfield Road, Brimington. With some copied research. It is believed that H. R. Shaw was the son-in-law of Walter Higgins. £220-£260
Six: Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 C. Miles, Royal Welsh Fusiliers queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State (4156 Corl., R. Welsh Fus.), unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4156 Serjt., Rl. Welsh Fus.); 1914-15 Star (4156 C.S. Mjr., R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (4156 A.W.O. Cl.1, R.W. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4156 C. Sjt., R. Welsh Fus.), mounted for display, first two with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine; others with minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (6) £300-350 M.I.D. London Gazette 25 September 1916 (Egypt). 4156 Lance-Serjeant C. Miles, 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was severely wounded at Rooidam, 5 May 1900. £300-£350
Pair: Serjeant R. Humphries, South Lancashire Regiment queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3650 Serjt., S/Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3650 Serjt., S. Lanc. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £140-180 £140-£180
Four: Flight Sergeant R. G. Love, Royal Air Force india General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (363998 A.C.1, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (363998 F/Sgt., R.A.F.), mounted as worn, very fine (lot) £380-420 R. G. Love, an amateur boxer of some repute in the R.A.F., was the winner of a quantity of medals, cups, trophies and plaques: medals (14), including, R.A.F. Medallion, 44mm., bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys Wing Cranwell, Feather Weight Champion 1924’; R.A.F. Medallion, 38mm., silver, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys’ Wing Cranwell Boxing Championships Featherweight winner A/A. R. G. Love; The Wakefield R.A.F. Boxing Trophy Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1926-27 Bantam Weight Winner R. G. Love’, 9ct. gold, 24.18g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1926; Prize Medal, eight-pointed silver star with gold centre inscribed, ‘Mussourie Boxing Tournament 1931; other medals and medallions, silver (4); bronze (6), most named or otherwise inscribed. cups and Trophies (13), including, Silver Cup, approx. 181mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Boxing Association, Fly Weight Championship 1927, Winner A/C. R. G. Love, Presented by Air Vice Marshal Sir John F. A. Higgins, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C.’; Silver Cup, approx. 153mm. high, no hallmarks, inscribed, ‘Boxing Cranwell v Halton (Aircraft Apprentices) Mar. 1926, Winner, Bantam Weight, R. G. Love’; Silver Tankard, approx. 117mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1928-29 R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 140mm. high, hallmarks for London 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq 1929-30, Bantam Weight Winner, R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 165mm. high, hallmarks for London 1933, inscribed, ‘R.A.F.B.A. Individual Championships 1933-1934, Bantam-Weight Winner, L.A.C. R. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 100mm. high, hallmarks for London 1930, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Uxbridge 1934 Contest Winner’; Silver Cup, approx. 164mm. high, hallmarks for Birmingham 1939, inscribed, ‘Boxing Bedfs. & Herts Depot v R.A.F. Cardington 1939 Fly Wt. Winner’; Pewter Tankard, with glass bottom, approx. 133mm. high, inscribed, ‘Signals Stadium L.A.C. Love’; Silvered Metal Cup, approx. 170mm. high, inscribed, ‘Amateur Boxing, R.A.F. v Ulster, 1935’, but with broken stem; other small cups (4) - three silver, one silvered metal, all inscribed. Ten of the trophies with wooden plinths. plaques (4), Silver Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for Birmingham 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1929-30, W. G. Love’ (sic); another, hallmarks for London, inscribed, ‘Aldershot Command v Royal Air Force, November 1934 L.A.C. Love’; Silver and Gold Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘I.S.B.A. Boxing 1927, Amateur Championship Other Ranks Fly Weight Winner, A.C. R. G. Love’; Bronze Plaque on wooden base, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Inter-Command Boxing Tournament 1930, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Runners Up, R. G. Love’. for his father’s medals, see Lot 814. £380-£420
Three: Warrant Officer Class 2 G. W. Grimes, Essex Regiment india General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (5998907 W.O. Cl.II, Essex R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5998907) minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £100-140 £100-£140
Three: Private C. Edwards, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action, 27 September 1914 1914 Star, with copy clasp (L-15512 Pte., 1/R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (L-15512 Pte., R. Fus.), last two late issues in card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £100-140 Charles Edwards was born and lived in High Wycombe and enlisted at Hounslow. Formerly serving with the 3rd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry, he transferred to the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers before the war. Serving with them, he was killed in action on 27 September 1914, aged 27 years. He was the son of Mr and Mrs A. Edwards of 31 Brook Street, High Wycombe. Sold with copied newspaper cutting bearing obituary with photograph. £100-£140
Three: Captain S. Hollins-Fisher, Middlesex Regiment, late London Regiment, who died on 28 September 1918 1914 Star, with clasp (2492 Pte. S. H. Fisher, 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. Hollins-Fisher); Memorial Plaque (Sydney Hollins-Fisher), this fitted on a wooden base for mounting on a wall, extremely fine (4) £500-600 Private Sydney Hollin Fisher, 1st/9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 November 1914. He was later commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and was seconded to serve with the 24th (Garrison) Battalion Rifle Brigade in India. Attaining the rank of Captain, he died on active service on 28 September 1918, aged 27 years, whilst serving with the Sialkot Brigade. His name is commemorated on the Kirkee Memorial. sold with card boxes of issue for the three Great War medals, complete with registered envelope addressed to ‘W. Fisher Esq, 17 Ridley Road, Harlesden, N.W.10’; Memorial Plaque accompanying slip, commemorative scroll and a copy of orders transferring 2nd Lieutenant Hollins-Fisher to Abbottabad, June 1917. Also with copied m.i.c. and other research and a wooden bowl. £500-£600
Three: Private A. F. Watts, Devonshire Regiment, killed in action on 1 July 1916 - the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1914 Star, with clasp (6202 Pte., 2/Devon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-6202 Pte., Devon. R.), B.W.M. officially re-impressed; Memorial Plaque (Arthur Francis Watts), in card envelope of issue, extremely fine (4) £350-450 Arthur Francis Watts was born and lived in Totnes, Devonshire and enlisted at Exeter. Serving with 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 November 1914. Serving with ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 1 July 1916 - the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Aged 25 years at the time of his death, he was the son of Sarah Mary Watts of 45 High Street, Totnes, Devon, and the late Alfred Watts. Private Watts was buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No.2. Sold with a folder of copied research including m.i.c., war diary extracts, a newspaper extract announcing that Private Watts was officially missing in action and photographs of his grave stone and the cemetery. £350-£450
Three: Lieutenant H. Owen, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment 1914 Star, with clasp (2. Lieut., Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) mounted for display on a blue velvet covered board with small brass plaque beneath, inscribed ‘Lieut. H. Owen, 2nd Border Regiment’, nearly extremely fine (3) £400-450 Hugh Owen was born at Sebastopol, Crimea on 30 May 1890 and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Cranbrook; Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Durham University. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted as Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment with effect from 21 August 1914, and promoted Lieutenant on 8 April 1915. He went to the Front on 13 November 1914, was wounded at Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915, returned to duty on 6 April and was killed in action at Festubert on 16 May 1915. £400-£450
Four: 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
Three: Sergeant J. F. J. Drummond, 1st Battalion, East Kent Regiment, sometime cartoon sketch artist for the regimental magazine, The Dragon 1914 Star, with clasp (L-5204 Pte., 1/E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-5204 Sjt., E. Kent R.); together with memorial plaque (John Francis Joseph Drummond) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-250 John Francis Joseph Drummond was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and lived at Richmond, Surrey. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 20 April 1917 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, East Kent Regiment. sold together with a quantity of original documentation, including four copies of The Dragon regimental magazine, which include various cartoon sketches drawn by Drummond; two of his sketch books; account book; and a number of photographs of recipient, including one of his original grave marker. £200-£250
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
Three: Lieutenant M. S. Lewis, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Honorable Artillery Company 1914 Star (1022 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (9) £180-220 Sold with two identity disks, one inscribed, ‘Private M. S. Lewis 1022, H.A.C. Infantry, C.E.’ and ‘2nd Lt. Malcolm S. Lewis R.G.A., C.E.’ ; the other, with chain, ‘2nd Lieut. Malcolm S. Lewis, R.G.A., C. of E.’ With British Sea Anglers Society (B.S.A.S.) Badge, enamelled, pin-backed; B.S.A.S. Silver Medallion, 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘Specimen Fish 1907-8, T. R. Estall Lewis - Scad. 2lbs. Ballycotton, 27-8-07’; National Council of Sea Anglers Bronze Medallions (2), 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estell (sic) Lewis, Halibut, 56lb, 1907’, another, rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estall Lewis, Ling, 30lbs. 1908’, these three in cases of issue. M. S. Lewis attained the rank of Lieutenant on 20 July 1918. £180-£220
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
Three: Private C. R. Balls, Rifle Brigade, killed in action, 25 September 1915 1914 Star (2080 Pte., 2/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2080 Pte., Rif. Brig.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Roberts Balls) very fine (5) £350-400 Charles Robert Balls was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living at Somerleyton, Suffolk, enlisted at Great Yarmouth in 1907. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 November 1914. He received a gunshot wound to the buttocks on 14 March 1915. He was killed in action on 25 September 1915, aged 30 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainault, Belgium. He was the son of Charles and Ellen Balls of Somerleyton, Lowestoft. sold with Princess Mary’s Christmas tin (empty) and with copied service papers, war diary extract, m.i.c., etc £350-£400
Three: Private F. Broyd, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment 1914 Star (L-14386 Pte., 2/Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-14386 Pte., Midd’x. R.); together with memorial plaque (Frederick Broyd) good very fine or better (4) £140-180 Frederick Broyd was born in Paddington, Middlesex and enlisted in London. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 24 April 1918 whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. £140-£180
An exceedingly well-documented and poignant Great War group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. H. Blades, The Rifle Brigade, late Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), who was killed in action in May 1917 1914-15 Star (4130 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), in their card forwarding boxes and registered envelope, virtually as issued (3) £2000-3000 William Henry ‘Harry’ Blades was born in September 1897 and was employed as a clerk at a bank in Kensington on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Having then considered the merits of whether to apply for a commission, and indeed which regiment to join, he attested in the Honourable Artillery Company (H.A.C.) in August 1915, and was embarked for France as a Private in ‘C’ Company, 3rd H.A.C. Infantry Battalion, at the end of the year. For the first few months his unit was employed on garrison duty at St. Omer, but by the summer of 1916, his letters home reveal service of a more active nature on the Somme: ‘We are getting r ady to spend the next few days in a manner not at all comfortable and free from care. I never knew I was so fond of life until recently, when there seemed a chance of losing it ... It seems absolutely absurd to think so many men should be formed up along the line trying to kill each other; and the sun shining overhead, birds singing and green woods in the distance ... The trench mortars are one of the most worrying inventions. They are fired from the trenches, and go high up into the air, dropping somewhere near the trench. You can see them dropping and have to run up and down dodging them, which might be quite interesting if the things didn’t explode with such force.’ Shortly after these operations, Blades applied for a commission and was despatched to a Cadet School, but fell ill with jaundice. It was not, therefore, until February 1917 that he was finally appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion of his favoured regiment - the Rifle Brigade. And towards the end of the following month, his unit moved up to the front line: ‘Things are not so pleasant now; and in a few hours we shall be in the trenches, some of the many Fritz has presented us with. If they are the same as the villages he has left, he can keep them. I have just seen one of them, and it is as desolate a sight as one can imagine - not a vestige of a building - just a gate or railings here and there ... It is awfully noisy here ... This morning we had a unique and rather touching sight of an aeroplane catching fire. The pilot lived to reach the ground, but gradually the flames gained until the plane shrivelled up and dropped. We could see the pilot throw himself out ... My respect for the Church of England has gone; and with the influence of the War, I have become materialistic - everything is chance. If you and a shell arrive at the same place together, that is chance.’ At long last, for he had not been home to Gateshead since he had been embarked for France at the end of 1915, Blades was given 10 days leave at Easter 1917 - ‘I am glad I had eave,’ he wrote on returning to his unit, ‘It won’t be quite so bad now I have seen everybody I wanted to.’ Just a few days later, on 3 May, he led his men over the top in a dawn attack near Cheresy. On the 7th, his Company Commander, Captain W. A. Crebbin, wrote to his father: ‘It is with great regret that I have to inform you that your son is wounded and missing. Much as I should like to, I’m afraid I can’t give you any hope for his safety. The Battalion went into action on May 3rd and shortly after we advanced your son was wounded: one of my stretcher bearers bound up his wounds but the stretcher bearer informed me that Blades had been grievously wounded and that there was very little chance of his living. the enemy counter attacked us heavily after our advance and we had to return to our original line and we were unable to get further information concerning your son. To be quite candid, though I hate being so, I’m afraid it is hoping against hope to think otherwise than that he has been killed in action. It is the best death that we are allowed out here, to fall at the head of one’s men; but it is those at home who have the biggest part of the war to bear, and their’s is the aftermath to suffer. i was your son’s Company Officer and though I have only taken over the Company recently, I know his loss will be greatly felt. His men looked up to him, loved him and would have done anything for him. His will be a great loss to the company. if I hear anything further concerning Blades I will contact you immediately, but in any case if there is any way in which I can help you, please don’t hesitate to write. I will do my best.’ Harry Blades has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was 21 years old. in addition to the archive described below, his awards are also sold with a wonderful biography of some 30,000 words, written by his sister, in which she draws upon some of his correspondence, in addition to many other family sources. Perhaps most moving of all is her account of the occasion that her brother - on his last leave home - confessed that he would never return: ‘He sought her out in the drawing room, where she was sitting alone in the twilight in front of a glowing fire. He walked round the back of the settee and put his hand on her shoulder. As she clasped it in her own, he said slowly and distinctly, ‘I know that I won’t come back. I want you to remember me and tell your children about me.’ The girl felt a lump rise in her throat and the hot tears well up in her eyes. She knew if she tried to speak she would burst into tears, and she must not do that at all costs. She clung to his hand and inclined her head in reply. Her brother waited for a few seconds, and then abruptly strode out of the room ... She felt she had somehow failed him in his hour of need, and that she ought to have been able to give him some words of comfort; but he had spoken with such grave conviction that no words of hers could have dispelled his gloom.’ It was not until September 1984 that she finally made the pilgrimage o see his name on the Arras Memorial. the Archive: (a) An impressive run of postcards, nearly 60, the whole to his family in Gateshead in the period 1913-15, written prior to his volunteering, and detailing his activities in London, not least many visits to the opera, art exhibitions and museums; together with three letters from the same period, with W. Kensington stamp marks, these dated 2 December 1914, 18 July and 21 July 1915. (b) His enlistment form on joining the H.A.C. (Infantry) on 4 August 1915; his Soldiers’ Pay Book (Active Service), with entries ‘In the Field’ covering the period August 1915 to February 1917; his related discharge form on obtaining a commission and official notification for his appointment to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, dated 18 February 1918; together with some miscellaneous souvenirs from his time in France, among them a cinema programme from Rouen Camp, December 1915, a Christmas dinner menu 1916, signed by four Rifle Brigade officers, and detailed annotated maps of trenches and positions, both dating from January 1917, when he was attending a Cadet School for his commission. (c) A quantity of letters home from the H.A.C. Training Camp at Richmond (9), dated between August 1915 and November 1915, and other examples sent from Kensington and Bisley in the same period. (d) A superb run of letters home from France, approximately 60, covering the period December 1915 right through until his death in action in 1917, most of them in ‘On Active Service’ green envelopes and similarly bearing ‘Passed by Field Censor’ stamps, together with a silk embroidered H.A.C. postcard and the occasional field postcard, and, most poignantly, the telegram he sent home reporting his E.T.A. at Gateshead on his last leave, dated 2 April 1917, his last lett
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
Three: Lance-Corporal A. J. Denham, 18th Battalion London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), killed in action, 27 October 1915 1914-15 Star (846 Pte., 18-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (846 Pte., 18-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (Alfred James Denham), this in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £160-200 Alfred James Denham was born in West Newington, and living in Kennington, enlisted at London. Serving as a Lance-Corporal in the 18th Battalion London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), he was killed in action on 27 October 1915. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Sold with copied research. £160-£200
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: Private G. E. Baldwin, 24th, late 8th Battalion London Regiment, killed in action, 21 March 1918 1914-15 Star (3871 Pte., 8-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3871 Pte., 8-Lond. R.); Memorial Plaque (George Edward Baldwin) adhesive marks to reverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £300-400 George Edward Baldwin was born on 27 May 1890, lived in Watford and enlisted in London, serving initially as Private 3871 in the 1/8th Battalion London Regiment. When serving with the 1/24th Battalion London Regiment, he was killed in action on 21 March 1918. His body was originally interred in the Metz-en-Couture British Cemetery but was later reburied in the Extension. the medals mounted on a board within a wooden glass-fronted case. Sold with oil painting of G. E. Baldwin in uniform, within an ornate gilt (damaged), glass-fronted frame; photograph of a memorial, in wooden glass-fronted frame; condolence certificate from the recipient’s former employers - the Post Office, in wooden glass-fronted frame; framed photograph of the recipient’s wife and daughter beside the above oil painting; framed wedding photograph with the recipient in uniform; Marriage Certificate dated 28 August 1915; official letter to Mrs Mary Ann Baldwin, of 21 Church Lane, Mill End, Hertfordshire, dated 17 April 1918, reporting the death of her husband; letters and photographs re. the original and later grave of the recipient. note: Glass frames unsuitable for posting. £300-£400
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
Three: Able Seaman E. Hunt, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.27961 Ord., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.27961 A.B., R.N.) pair: Private A. Mansell, Queen’s Regiment british War and Victory Medals (243604 Pte., The Queen’s R.) memorial Plaque (John Eyles), this about very fine; other medals, nearly extremely fine (6) £90-110 Medals to Hunt with a photograph of the recipient. one ‘John Eyles’ on C.W.G.C. List - born and lived in Eversley, Hampshire; enlisted at Winchester. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, he was killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 May 1915, aged 28 years. The son of Henry and Rosina Eyles of The Chequers, Eversley Cross; his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Note: two other ‘J. Eyles’ on C.W.G.C. List. £90-£110
Three: Private E. Brompton, Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (13341 Pte., Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13341 Pte., Linc. R.), ‘Limc. R.’ on B.W.M., this with loose suspension rod; Lincolnshire Regiment cap badge, very fine and better (lot) £80-100 Edward Brompton was born in 1891 and enlisted for service in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 4 September 1914. Serving with the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire, he was posted ‘missing’ on 15 April 1918 and was later found to be a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 9 March 1919. At the time of his capture, his wife was living at ‘15 May Road, Twickenham’. sold with a quantity of original papers, including, recipient’s Soldiers’ Small Book with enclosed ‘Will’; War Office forms (2) informing his wife that he was ‘missing in action’; Newspaper cutting, in which his wife and mother request information; Red Cross cards (2) re. their efforts to trace his whereabouts; letter written by his officer to his wife; another from an officer a friend of the recipient; wartime postcards (7); portrait photograph; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; recipient’s Leave or Duty Ration Book, December 1918-February 1919; Released Prisoner of War Card (unused); Field Service Post card (unused); other wartime cards (3); slips re. medals (2); ‘Buckingham Palace’ Welcome home letter; sundry forms re. war pension and gratuity; Programme of the 1946 Royal Performance at the Palladium; two theatre posters. £80-£100
Three: Private G. E. Rayner, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action, 8 April 1916 1914-15 Star (10070 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (GS-10070 Pte., R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (George Edward Rayner) good very fine (4) £160-200 George Edward Rayner was born in Hammersmith, lived at Westbourne Park and enlisted at Marylebone. Serving with the 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), he was killed in action on 8 April 1916. He was buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France. £160-£200
Four: Serjeant J. T. Day, Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (11129 Pte., Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11129 Sjt., Dorset. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (John Day) fine and better (5) £40-60 Serjeant John T. Day served in the 2nd and 5th Battalions, Dorsetshire Regiment, in Gallipoli and Egypt. After the war he served as a Special Constable in the Bournemouth Police Force. Sold with Dorsetshire Regiment cap badge. £40-£60
Three: Corporal H. Jones, East Lancashire Regiment, killed in action, Gallipoli, 30 August 1915 1914-15 Star (1740 Cpl., E. Lanc. R); British War and Victory Medals (1740 Cpl., E. Lan. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-160 Herbert Jones was born in Millom, Cumberland. A weaver by occupation he enlisted at Burnley, Lancashire with the 1/5th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. With them he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action, shot by a sniper, at Gallipoli, 30 August 1915, aged 19 years. He was the son of Mary Jones of 11 Coniston Street, Burnley. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Sold with copied research including a copied extract from the Express and Advertiser, 22 September 1915. £120-£160
Four: Private J. Anderson, Royal Air Force, late Cameron Highlanders 1914-15 Star (10371 Pte., Cam’n. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (135705 Pte. 1, R.A.F); Defence, unnamed, mounted court style pair: Private J. Erskine, Royal Scots british War and Victory Medals (9144 Pte., R. Scots) good very fine and better (6) £70-90 James Anderson was born in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, on 1 August 1894. A Railway Parcels Clerk by occupation, he enlisted into the Cameron Highlanders and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 8 July 1915. He was wounded on 13 August 1916, receiving a gunshot wound to his left side. He transferred to the R.F.C. on 30 August 1917 and remained with them in France until 29 August 1919. Sold with original photograph and copied service papers and m.i.c. medals to Erskine with Active Service Testament 1914-16; inside page inscribed, ‘Bugler J. Erskine, ‘A’ Coy. 2/4th Royal Scots, Tirling Camp, Nr. Witham, Essex’ and ‘Started for France 7/11/16’. £70-£90
Four: Serjeant R. A. Taylor, Royal Highlanders 1914-15 Star (166 Sjt., R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (166 Sjt., R. Highrs.); Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (3528 Cpl., 6/V.B. Rl. Hdrs.) contact marks, about very fine (4) £100-140 Robert Anderson Taylor, a Cloth Inspector by occupation and a member of the 6th V.B. Royal Highlanders, enlisted into the Territorial Force at Dunfermline on 7 April 1908. As a Sergeant in the 7th Battalion Royal Highlanders he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 May 1915 and served with the B.E.F. until 1 December 1915. Returning home, he was discharged on 12 May 1917 and was subsequently awarded the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied service papers, m.i.c. and roll extracts. £100-£140
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
Three: Private A. R. Coleman, Essex Regiment, killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 April 1915 1914-15 Star (8668 Pte., Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (8668 Pte., Essex R.); Memorial Plaque (Albert Robert Coleman, Essex Regiment), in card envelope of issue, extremely fine (4) £160-200 Albert Robert Coleman was born in West Ham, Essex, and living at Custom House, London, enlisted at Stratford. Serving with the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment, he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 25 April 1915 and died in Gallipoli on 28 April, aged 25 years. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Private Coleman was the son of Mr J. W. Coleman of 66 Cleaver Road, Custom House, Victoria Docks, London. Sold with folder containing commemorative scroll and forwarding slips for the medals and plaque, copied m.i.c. and war diary extracts. £160-£200
Three: Captain G. Chubb, 6th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (Capt., The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) very fine or better (3) £300-350 Geoffrey Chubb was educated at Leys School and King’s College, Cambridge, by profession a solicitor he also played rugby for Kent and the Old Leysians. He was killed in action on 12 July 1915, aged 46, whilst serving with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment and is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Ploegsteert, France. His eldest son, Francis, had been killed in action less than three months previously on 18 April 1915 whilst serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Light Infantry. £300-£350
Three: Private E. Huse, 24th (Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (456 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (K-456 Pte., R. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-100 Ernest Huse was born and lived at Hanwell and enlisted in London. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 23 August 1918 whilst serving with the 24th (Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. £80-£100
Four: Sergeant H. G. Lang, Devonshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (7715 L. Cpl., Devon R.); British War and Victory Medals (7715 Sjt., Devon R.); French Medaille Militaire, reverse of suspension neatly inscribed ‘7715 Sergt. H. G. Lang’, mounted as worn, some enamel damage to last, otherwise very fine or better (4) £200-250 French Medaille Militaire London Gazette 15 December 1919. herbert George Lang first served in the French theatre of war on 2 February 1915 and was discharged in consequence of wounds on 13 September 1918. £200-£250
Family group: three: Able Seaman R. D. Robb, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (CZ.4840 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.Z. 4840 A.B., R.N.V.R.) pair: Private J. M. Robb, Highland Light Infantry british War and Victory Medals (4506 Pte., H.L.I.) good very fine (5) £60-80 Robert Dickson Robb died on 11 March 1917 whilst serving with the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division and is buried at Cathcart Cemetery, United Kingdom. £60-£80
Three: Private R. Line, 7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (14432 Pte., Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (14432 Pte., Wilts R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £60-80 Richard Line was born at Hampstead, Middlesex and lived at Notting Hill Gate, London. He was killed in action in Salonika on 24 April 1917 whilst serving with the 7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. £60-£80
Three: Private J. Weldon, 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (3-5706 Pte., E. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-5706 Pte., E. York. R.); together with memorial plaque (James Weldon) good very fine (4) £130-160 James Weldon was born and enlisted at Sheffield. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 23 April 1915 whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. £130-£160
Seven: Major T. S. Belshaw, Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, late London Regiment 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., 22/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, MI.D. oakleaf, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (7) £180-220 M.I.D. London Gazette 1 June 1916 & 20 December 1940. t. S. Belshaw attained the rank of Captain in the 22nd Battalion London Regiment in June 1916. A note with the lot states that Belshaw was buried alive during the course of the war and had to dig his way out by hand. During the Second World War he served with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps. Sold with original photograph and framed M.I.D. Certificate, dated 30 November 1915. £180-£220
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
Three: Corporal R. Jones, Somerset Light Infantry, subsequently Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (13841 L. Cpl., Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (13841 Cpl., Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-100 Richard Jones was born and lived in Nelson, Glamorgan and enlisted at Pontypridd. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 1 October 1918 whilst serving with the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. £80-£100
Three: Segeant F. J. Corrie, Yorkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (12612 Sjt., York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (12612 Sjt., York. R.) nearly very fine (3) £40-50 Frederick James Corrie first served in the French theatre of war from 13 July 1915 and was discharged in consequence of wounds on 2 June 1917. Sold with confimation. £40-£50
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
Three: Private F. H. Ruby, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (20552 Pte., Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (20552 Pte., Glouc. R.) good very fine (3) £60-80 Francis Henry Ruby was born and enlisted at Woolwich. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 16 June 1916 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. £60-£80
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
Four: Private H. G. W. King, Lincolnshire Regiment, subsequently North Staffordshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (15942 Pte., Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (15942 Pte., Linc. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (34600 Pte., N. staff. R.) very fine (4) £80-100 £80-£100
A scarce Signal Service group of four to Lieutenant W. T. Toms, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was twice mentioned in despatches for Waziristan 1919-21 1914-15 Star (6503 Sjt., Dorset R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lieut., Div. Sig.), with M.I.D. oakleaf, good very fine (4) £200-250 M.I.D. London Gazette 10 June 1921. ‘...for distinguished services during the operations in Waziristan 1919-20.’ (Lieut., The Dorsetshire Regt. attd. 38th Divisional Signal Coy.) m.I.D. London Gazette 1 June 1923. ‘...for distinguished service during the operations in Waziristan 1920-21.’ (Lieut., The Dorsetshire Regt. attd. Signal Service) £200-£250
Five: Major T. L. Fennel, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Cheshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (Major, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), these three late issues; Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1917, with top bar, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-180 Theodore Llewellyn Fennell was born in 1874. He qualified as a Medical Practitioner, gaining a M.B. and Ch.B. at Manchester University in 1901. He was employed as a House Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Assistant Medical Officer at the Manchester Workhouse Infirmary. Fennell became a member of the 3rd V.B. Cheshire Regiment in 1898. With the onset of war, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Major with the 5th V.B. Cheshire Regiment on 15 February 1915. He was invalided to England in May 1915 suffering from Chronic Dysentery. Recovering sufficiently in England, he applied for a transfer to the R.A.M.C., there better to use his medical skills. He was re-commissioned a Major in the R.A.M.C. in May 1916. He returned to France in February 1918 and served there and with the Army of Occupation until June 1921, his last unit being the 142nd Field Ambulance. Latterly living at Hatfield House, Chilham, near Canterbury, he was Medical Officer for East Ashford. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c., the latter indicating that the recipient’s Great War medals were issued in 1929. £140-£180
Family group: three: Private H. Slater, Welsh Regiment, killed in action, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915 1914-15 Star (11890 Pte., Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (11890 Pte., Welsh R.) pair: Gunner J. Slater, Royal Garrison Artillery, died of wounds, 7 May 1917 british War and Victory Medals (63175 Gnr., R.A.) extremely fine (8) £140-180 Harry Slater was born and lived in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at Newport, Monmouthshire. Serving with the 8th Battalion Welsh Regiment, he was killed in action in Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, aged 24 years. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. joseph Slater was born in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at Aylesbury. Serving with the 90th Siege Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery, he died of wounds, France/Flanders, on 7 May 1917, aged 20 years. He was buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. harry and Joseph Slater were the sons of Peter and Janet Slater of Rose Cottage, Chearsley, Buckinghamshire. sold with Welsh Regiment shoulder title and Royal Artillery and Rifle Brigade cap badges. £140-£180
1914-15 Star trios (4) (41784 Gnr. J. E. Workman, R.G.A./R.A.; 108189 Spr./A. Sjt. M. Harris, R.E.; M2-102491 Pte. J. R. Graham, A.S.C.; M2-020076 Pte. G. Macaulen, A.S.C.) ‘Harris’ group worn; others very fine and better (12) £100-140 Gunner Jesse E. Workman, R.G.A. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 February 1915. Discharged to the reserve on 6 March 1919. sold with copied m.i.c. £100-£140
1914-15 Star trios (3) (4576/4516 Pte. W. J. Batchelor, 4-Lond. R./R. Fus.; 15150 Pte. W. L. Phillips, W. Rid. R.; 189699 A. S. Warren, L.S., R.N.) ‘Phillips’ group late issues, very fine and better (9) £80-100 4576 Private William J. Batchelor, 4th Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 October 1915. Later serving with the Labour Corps, he was discharged on 22 March 1919. Sold with copied m.i.c. private William L. Phillips, West Riding Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 July 1915. Later serving with the Leicestershire Regiment, he was discharged on 9 August 1917. sold with copied m.i.c. £80-£100
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
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