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Mons Star Trio and Plaque Devonshire Regiment

£395.00
-1914 Mons Star with clasp 5th August-22nd November 1914 8402 Pte. W.J. Walsh 2/Devon R. -War and Victory Medals 8402 Pte. W.J. Walsh Devon Regt. -Death Plaque named William Joseph Walsh With Commonwealth War Graves paperwork confirming killed in action 6th October 1916, commemorated on the Loos memorial Medal Index card confirming medal entitlement William was born in Plymouth, he had previous service with the Militia and was probably killed in action on a raid on the German trenches opposite Essex Lane on 6th October 1916 when the Devons sustained 40 casualties having been caught by machine gun fire. Condition as shown in photographs

Naval General Service Persian Gulf 1909-14

£185.00
Naval General Service Medal 1909-62 Clasp Persian Gulf 1909-14 271600 A.M. Picken E.R.A. 2CL H.M.S. Proserpine Arthur Matthew Picken was born in Birmingham 13th June 1882 and joined the Royal Navy 21st April 1904. He served until 13th October 1922. With copy service paperwork and details of H.M.S. Proserpine. Condition as shown in photographs

Officer's Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery Militia Pair

£399.00
Lte. J. F. B. Moody Devonshire Royal Garrison Artillery Militia -Coronation 1911 unnamed as issued -Queen's South Africa 1899-1902 1 clasp Cape Colony Lieut. J.F.B. Moody Devon RGA. Engraved naming Mounted in this order as worn. Interesting Officer's Artillery Militia pair. John Frederick Badger born Derbyshire 1864, married Isabella Blake 8th February 1886 at St Pancras. Appears to have some Voluntary Military Service before the Boer War. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant 4th September 1897 and served as a Lieutenant during the Boer War with the Remounts. Appears to have been a solicitor. Died at Gosport 18th March 1937 leaving only £159. Condition as shown in photographs

Royal Marine Artillery WWI War Medal

£35.00
Royal Marine Artillery WWI War Medal 7032 GNR. John Robert Frank Filby Royal Marine Artillery WWI War Medal RMA 7032 GR. J.R.F Filby With copy service papers also entitled to a 1914 Star and a Victory Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Born 26th April 1879, Camberwell, London. Enlisted 1st October 1897 and reengaged 5th September 1909. Married Ann Marie Russel 6th January 1917. Served RMA depot 1897-98, Royal Marine Artillery 1898-99, H.M.S Royal Oak, Mediterranean fleet 1899-1902, H.M.S Illustrious 1903-1905, H.M.S Hindustan 1906-1909, Royal Marine Artillery Ostend and Dunkirk 1909-1915, RMA Howitzer Brigade 1915-1919. Discharged 30th May 1919 after 21 years service. filly swerved at Ostend between 27th-31st August 1914 and then Dunkirk 7th-18th October 1914. Transferring to Howitzers and served in the Dardanelles with No.3 Howitzer Brigade. Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded November 1912. Condition as shown in photographs

Royal Navy WWI Long Service Group H.M.S. Victory

£210.00
-1914-15 Star named 346238 A.G. Young Shpt. 2 RN -WWI War Medal, WWI Victory Medal named as above -Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal George V named Shpt. 1 H.M.S. Victory Alfred George Young was born at Portsmouth 15th December 1888 and is ranked as a Shipwright on all his medals. He was serving on H.M.S. Victory at the time of the award of his Long Service Medal. Condition as shown in photographs

Somerset Light Infantry Colour Sergeant's Long Service & Good Conduct Medal EVII

£120.00
Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal Edward VII issue 1478 Colour Sergeant G.B. Church Somerset Light Infantry George Backhouse Church was born in Carrick, Ireland in 1865. He attested for the Somerset Light Infantry on 22nd February 1886 at Taunton, Somerset. He gave his occupation as a Clerk. He was posted to the 1st Battalion. He was promoted to Lance Corporal 1st June 1887 and then to Corporal. He was promoted to Lance Sergeant 15th September 1887 and Sergeant 1st November 1888. He was posted to India arriving 15th October 1889 and passed his course for Sergeant of Musketry 14th November 1890 and was promoted to Colour Sergeant 2nd Battalion 16th January 1893. He was posted back to the UK, arriving back 15th February 1894. From the 30th April 1898 he was in Australia attached to the Queensland government serving as Sergeant Instructor of Infantry for the next 3 years. He arrived home on 1st May 1900 and was appointed to the permanent staff of the 5th Militia Somerset Light Infantry. He was discharged on the 16th February 1907 at Taunton having been awarded his Long Service & good Conduct medal in 1904 with gratuity. He died in St. Pancras Hospital aged 74 years, 8th March 1939 following an accident. Accompanied by a folder of copy documents and research. Condition as shown in photographs  

Warrant Officer Class II J. E. Stead, Royal Marines, who served aboard Warrior at the Battle of Jutland

£225.00
1914-15 Star (Ply. 9296, Sgt. J. E. Stead. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ply.9296 Cr. Sgt. J. E. Stead. R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Ply.9296 J. E. Stead, Sergeant, R.M.L.I.), mounted as worn, good very fine (4) John Edmund Stead was born on 21 June 1880 at Rock Ferry, Cheshire, the son of Private Stead, 4th Light Dragoons. Young Stead was a warehouseman by trade upon his joining the Royal Marines on 20 July 1898. Having earned his L.S. & G.C., during the Great War he served variously aboard Warrior and Glorious. He was present aboard Warrior during her famous part in the Battle of Jutland. During the fighting Warrior, under Captain Vincent Molteno, found herself facing off against the German Battlecruiser Derfflinger, which hit her over fifteen times. The ship suffered heavy damage but her engine room crew managed to keep the ship under power for long enough to disengage - however, in the end only three of these men survived the fighting.  Withdrawing westwards she was taken under tow by Captain Robinson's Engadine. Unfortunately Warrior was taking on water too quickly and soon the decision was taken to transfer her crew to Engadine and scuttle her. Notably during the transfer, Lieutenant Rutland again sprang to action and was awarded the Albert Medal in Gold for attempting to save the life of a wounded man who had fallen between the two ships. He was also awarded the D.S.C. for his actions during the battle with a Bar added in 1917 and the nickname 'Rutland of Jutland'. With their work done, Signaller H. Y. Ganderton of the Engadine, brings the story to a close: 'Grappling irons and ropes were cast off at 08.25 and gathering speed we left the doomed ship - a truly forlorn spectacle. Derelict, battered and battle scarred, forsaken at last, heaving in a queer dying convulsive sort of manner - and yet, with the white ensign proudly flying at the masthead, her battle ensign. Warrior's crew gave their old ship a cheer, and there were tears in her captain's eyes. That was the last glimpse of the old Warrior we had before she was lost sight of in the mist, and vanished beneath the waves of the cold grey North Sea.' Eventually promoted Warrant Officer Class II, Stead was pensioned in July 1919.

WWI Casualty Trio

£140.00
M2/049118, 176th Coy Army Service Corps, Attached 12th Ammunition Sub Park
Pte. John Mc Innes killed in action 11th January 1916
Commemorated Chocques military cemetery and Oban war memorial.
-1914-15 Star
-War Medal
-Victory Medal
Good condition as shown in photographs

WWI Mercantile Marine Casualty

£345.00
-WWI War Medal -WWI Mercantile Marine Medal Both named Frank Fleet -WWI Death Plaque in original cardboard envelope 'Frank Fleet' -Original medal envelopes for war medal and mercantile marine medal + flattened medal box -Accompanied by research and photocopied photographs Frank was born 10th March 1870 at Slindon, Essex. He married in 1901. His occupation was 'Carter' and 'Merchant Seaman'. He was on board S.S. El Zorro an oil tanker which was captured and torpedoed by the German submarine U-24 10 miles south of the Old Head of Kinsale. The ship was towed for about 5 miles and as the weather began to worsen, the ship was anchored and the crew were removed to a German patrol boat. In the transfer of the crew, Frank Fleet was lost overboard and drowned 28th December 1915. He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial. Condition as shown in photographs

WWI Mercantile Marine Master's Casualty Group

£375.00
-WWI War Medal -WWI Mercantile Marine Medal -Death Plaque + original card envelope All named William Philps Accompanied by original Buckingham Palace and Board of Trade letters. William Philps was the Master of S.S. Sea Serpent Leach & Co Limited London. He was drowned when the vessel hit a mine and sank 1 mile west of Folkestone Pier 23rd March 1916 whilst on a voyage from Birkenhead to Dunkirk with a cargo of corrugated iron. It will appear that his body was washed ashore and he is buried at Nunhead Cemetery, Allsaints, Camberwell. He was the husband of Julia Philps of Wimbledon and the son of Walter and Harriet Philps of Surrey. He was 49 years old. Condition as shown in photographs

WWI Mercantile Marine Pair

£85.00
-WWI War Medal named Ernest Boullen -Mercantile Marine Medal named Ernest Boullen Ernest was born between April-June 1882 in Salford, Lancashire. The 1911 census lists Ernest as a driver for a furniture firm living at 97 Rosemary St, Chorlton. By the beginning of the First World War, Ernest is serving in the Mercantile Marines and married Sarah Walker in 1916. First World War service medals confirmed on his Mercantile Marine Index Card. Ernest died between October-December 1932 aged 50. Accompanied by a file of service and family research. Condition as shown in photographs