1914-15 Star & Victory Medal Pair
£60.00279918 M.B. FARRIER CH. STO. R.N.
Note: War Medal not present
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1914-15 Star RN
£35.00J. 9272 G.R. Creasey. A. B. R.N.
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1914-15 Star Royal Navy
£35.00J9229 H. Antrobus AB. R.N.
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1914-15 Star The Queen's Regt. Killed in Action 25th September 1915
£75.00G-2799 L. CPL. L.G. Balcombe. The Queen's R.
Leonard George Balcombe 8th Bn. The Queen's (The Royal West Surrey Regt.) killed in action 25th September 1915 aged 26. Husband of Mrs D. Balcombe of 153 Godstone Road Whyteleafe, Surrey. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial panel 13-15.
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1914-15 Trio Royal Naval Reserve
£75.001914-15 Trio Royal Naval Reserve
DH ranking on Star D.A 8611 T. Foster DH RNR.
Rank 2 HD on War and Victory Medal
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1914-15 Trio, Plaque London Field Ambulance RAMC
£250.00-1914-15 Star 1708 Pte. E. A. Austing RAMC
-War & Victory Medal 536146 Pte. E. A. Austing RAMC
-Death Plaque Ernest Albert Austing
-Scroll & Buckingham Palace note (stuck on to cardboard and appear to have been removed from a frame)
Killed in action 5th June 1917 aged 24. Commemorated Poperinghe New Military Cemetery. The son of Mr and Mrs A. F. W. Austing 9 Alroy Road, Harringay, London.
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4 Bar 1908 India General Service Medal to the 27th Mountain Battery
£375.00India General Service Medal 1908 clasps Afghanistan N.W.F 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, Wariristan 1921-24
960 L. NK. Chanu Khan, 27/Mtn. Bty.
Condition as shown in photographs- light contact marks, otherwise very fine
A Great War M.C. & Territorial Decoration Group First London (City of London) Brigade RFA
£1,375.00A Great War M.C. & Territorial Decoration Group of 5 awarded to Colonel Henry John Percy Oakley First London (City of London) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Awarded the M.C. in 1917, he later commanded the 90th (City of London) Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery (T.A.) between 1927 and 1933, and was Honorary Colonel of the Brigade jointly with the Lord Mayor after 1938 and into WW2, comprising: Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. J. P. Oakley. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1919, the latter with bronze ‘M.i.D.’ spray of oakleaves upon ribbon (Capt. H. J. P. Oakley.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Medal court-mounted on bar as worn, with matching set of miniatures, a very good contemporary watercolour portrait of the recipient, in uniform, during the Great War, and a black and white portrait photograph of the recipient, in uniform, c.1926, old dark tone, extremely fine (12) M.C.: London Gazette: 1 January, 1917 (New Year Honours)T.D.: London Gazette: 5 February, 1926M.i.D.: London Gazette: 20 December, 1918Colonel Henry John Percy Oakley (1878-1942) was born on 22 September 1878 in the City of London. A proud ‘cockney’, he was educated at Birkbeck School, and afterwards joined the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company - where he would in fact remain as an employee for his entire ‘civilian’ career.
He was made a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1905, and after an initial period of service as Squadron Quartermaster-Serjeant with the City of London (Rough Riders) Yeomanry, he was appointed Second Lieutenant with the 1st London (City of London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on 14 February 1914, just prior to the Great War.Mobilised for service in the Great War, he landed in France and Flanders on 3 October 1915, was promoted to Lieutenant and then received the Military Cross on 1 January 1917. Promoted to Captain on 3 September 1917, he was appointed Staff Captain attached to Headquarter Units on 15 March 1918 (attached to the 40th Division R.A.) in which position he remained until the end of the war.After the war he served on the Council of the Institute of Actuaries almost continuously from 1921 (and was elected President in 1939) but retained his interest in the Territorials. He was promoted to Major with the 90th (City of London) Field Brigade R.A. (T.A.) on 24 June 1921, and was awarded his T.D. on 5 February 1926, after which he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel (11 November 1927) and placed in command of his unit between 1927 to 1933.
Retiring from this position on completion of his tenure on 1 November 1933, he was appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Brigade jointly with the Lord Mayor after 1938 and early on in WW2, apparently also undertaking duties with the Thames Valley Home Guard by family repute.He continued to be employed by the ‘North British’ in his civilian career, rising to the position of ‘Actuary and Life Manager’ in his latter years. At the time of his death on 3 February 1942, he was Military Member of the Council, and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the City of London Territorial Army Association.
See his son's medals Major J.L.D Oakley also available for purchase.
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An Unusual Territorial Long Service Pair to the 6th Devonshire Regt.
£190.00-Territorial Force Efficiency Medal 1908 George V named 5431859 Cpl. W. H. Cunningham 6-Devon. R.
-Efficiency Medal 1930 George V, Clasp Territorial named 5431859 Sjt. W. H. Cunningham 6-Devon. R.
Unusual double Long Service Territorial Pair. 6 Devons were based at Barnstaple.
Copy WWI service documents (please note WWI medals not present with pair).
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Coronation Medal 1911
£95.00Unnamed as issued in silver
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Essex Regiment WWI Casualty Pair & Plaque
£225.00-1914-15 Trio
40462 Pte. J.R. Ellis Essex Regt.
Death Plaque- Jack Robert Ellis
Memorial Scroll (mounted and damaged), 2 photographs
Condition as shown in photographs (Scroll photos and medals appear to have been removed from a frame at some point)
Jack served in the 2nd Battalion of the Essex Regiment and died 3rd May 1917, aged 19. He was the foster son of Mrs H. Beard of Alexandra Cottage, Grays, Essex. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Bay 7.
HMS Mantua P&O Company Armed Merchant Cruiser WWI DSM Group
£985.0083466 Chief Leading Fireman George Youngs DSM MMR H.M.S. Mantua
-Distinguished Service Medal George V (uncrowned) named G. Youngs CH LG FIRE N MMR. H.M.S. Mantua
-1914-15 Star G Youngs FMN MFA
-WWI War Medal G Youngs L FMN MFA
-Victory Medal G Youngs L FMN MFA
Mounted for display in an attractive wood and felt frame.
The 1911 census shows George then 29 years old living at 5 Vanguard Street, Deptford with his wife Madeline also 29 years old and their 2 children Amelia and George aged 4 and 2 years respectively. George is recorded as a 'Seaman/Fireman' on the census form. His DSM is recorded in the London Gazette no.30616 as being awarded for service in vessels of the Royal Navy between 1st January and 31st December 1917 whilst serving on H.M.S. Mantua, an armed merchant cruiser. The Mantua was built in 1909 for the P&O Shipping Company for the Australia service. On 5th August 1914 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for service with the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser. She was converted at Liverpool and fitted with eight 4.7" guns and two 6 pounders and formally commissioned as H.M.S. Mantua into the Royal Navy 15th August 1914. She served initially in the Northern Patrol and then in 1915 as a troop ship. In 1917 she was stationed at Plymouth for duties as a Coastal Patrol and escort vessel between the UK and South Africa. During one of these patrols she was involved in an unfortunate maritime incident with The Quillota, a French, 3 masted sailing ship. On the 24th September 1917 she had sailed from St Nazaire for the Australian port of Freemantle. On 6th October she was sailing along the coast of Portugal in poor weather conditions, the lookout brought to the attention of the Officer of the Watch that he had sighted a large fast-moving steam ship heading directly towards them. In the poor weather conditions he considered it was probably an enemy ship and called his crew to battle stations. Both ships exchanged shell fire and The Quillota sustained damage to her hull and rigging and a fire erupted on the bow. The captain ordered the ship to be abandoned. When the unidentified ship approached the lifeboat the French were astonished to discover it was an armed British merchant cruiser H.M.S. Mantua. Both ships had mistakenly believed each other to be there enemy.
The incident had the ingredients of a serious diplomatic fall out between the British and French governments. However the Admiralty acted quickly to smooth over any difficulties accepting that H.M.S. Mantua had sunk the French sailing ship by gun fire mistaking her for a German raider. A court of enquiry was conducted by the Admiralty and French Naval Authorities at Dakar. The findings of the court acknowledged that both captains had made mistakes but the probability that H.M.S. Mantua’s captain was more at fault and a formal apology to the French over the sinking was submitted. During 1918 H.M.S. Mantua continued her war-time duties sailing between Cape Town and Sierra Leone. After the Armistice, she was decommissioned in 1920 and returned to P&O. Continuing her commercial service between the UK and Australia until 1935 when she was decommissioned.
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