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.
Condition as shown in photographs
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.
Condition as shown in photographs
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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2 Clasp Transport Medal 1899
£1,995.00Transport Medal 1899 Clasps South Africa 1899-1902, China 1900. Edward VII
W. J. Nicholls. Confirmed on roll as serving on P&O Company's S.S. Formosa serving as 3rd engineer for both campaigns.
Only 178 2 clasp medals were issued form a total 1719, 66 to engineers.
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FORMOSA (1892)
Base data at 12 April 1892. Last amended November 2008 * indicates entries changed during P&O Group service.
Type
P&O Group service P&O Group status Former name(s)
Registered owners, managers and operators
Builders Yard Country Yard number
Registry
Official number Signal letters Classification society
Gross tonnage Net tonnage Deadweight
Length Breadth Depth Draught
Engines Engine builders Works
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Power Propulsion Speed
Passenger capacity Cargo capacity Crew
Employment
Passenger/cargo liner 1892-1909
Owned by parent company
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Naval Construction & Armaments Co Ltd Barrow-in-Furness
UK
196
Barrow, UK 93427
Lloyd’s Register
4,045 grt 2,616 nrt 5,734 tons
117.31m (385.0ft) 13.77m (45.2ft) 8.53m (28.0ft)
7.744m (25ft 5in)
Triple-expansion steam engine
Naval Construction & Armaments Co Ltd Barrow-in-Furness
UK
3,000 ihp Single screw 11 knots
30 first class
7,460 cubic metres (263,500 cubic feet)
India and Far East ‘intermediate’ services
0161 1892/0412
Career
12.03.1892: 07.04.1892: 12.04.1892:
1899:
1900: 23.07.1904:
26.07.1904:
1908:
09.1909:
Launched.
Registered.
Sailed from the builders as Formosa for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
Requisitioned for service as a troopship during the Boer War. Trooped to China.
Seized by the Russian cruiser Smolensk in the Red Sea on the suspicion that she was carrying contraband to Japan.
Arrived at Suez and released the following day following Government intervention. The Russian Government subsequently paid compensation.
Laid up in Royal Victoria Dock, London, after failing to reach her reserve price at auction.
Sailed for Bo’ness where she was broken up by Forth Shipbreaking Company Ltd.
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
4 Bar Queens South Africa Wiltshire Regiment
£175.00Queens South Africa Clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902
5597 Pte. F. Gatehouse WILTS REGT.
With copy service documents.
Frank Gatehouse was born around 1882 at Corton, Wiltshire. With short service copy documents confirming Wiltshire Regiment service. Also showing WWI service and confirmation of Clasps for his QSA.
Condition as shown in photographs- With slightly bent suspension. With marks to the obverse and a few edge knocks.
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.
Condition as shown in photographs
Afghanistan 1878 Medal Manchester Regiment
£185.00No clasp
729 Pte. Alex Barr 63rd Regiment (Manchester)
With a folder of service and family details.
Alexander was born in 1844 in Killbarchan, Renfrew, Scotland and enlisted into the 63rd Regiment of foot on 8th January 1862. He stated his occupation to be a Weaver. From 17th August 1864 to 13th August 1865 he served in Canada. He was confined on 25th September 1866 for being drunk on duty and imprisoned until 8th November 1866. He was tried and imprisoned again for being drunk on duty 24th January 1871. His military records state he was attached to the 2nd 18th Foot (Royal Irish) April-June 1871. He then served in the East Indies January 1872 and served during the Afghan War of 1878 and was discharged 17th June 1881. He was married in 1885. Confirmed on the roll as entitled to an Afghan Medal no clasp.
Condition as shown in photographs
Air Efficiency Trio to a Female Recipient
£295.00-WWII War Medal unnamed as issued
-WWII Defence Medal unnamed as issued
-Air Efficiency Award
George VI
880441 SGT. J.W. Badley WAAF
Awarded 07/08/47 , only 255 awarded to The WAAFS
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