Contemporary WWI India General Service Miniature Group
£55.00-1914-15 Trio
-India General Service 1908 clasp Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919
-WWII Defence Medal
Mounted for wear, unnamed as issued.
Condition as shown in photographs
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East and West Africa WWI RN Long Service Group
£450.00-East and West Africa Medal clasp Witu 1890 named H. Gillingham PTE. RM. H.M.S. Boadicea
-1914-15 Star 350019 H. Gillingham M.M.A. RN.
-WWI War Medal 350019 H. Gillingham M.M.A. RN.
-Victory Medal 350019 H. Gillingham M.M.A. RN.
-War Medal 350019 H. Gillingham M.M.A. RN.
-Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal Edward VII named Henry Gillingham M.M.A. H.M.S. Cressy
Approximately 312 clasps were issued to H.M.S. Boadicea for the expedition under Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Freemantle against Sultan Fumo Bakari of Witu.
With copy service papers. Henry was born 4th March 1867 in Bridport, Dorset. He enlisted on 4th February 1886 at Salisbury giving his trade as a 'Fireman' into the Royal Marines Light Infantry/ Royal Navy.
Condition as shown in photographs
HMS Laurentic Royal Marine WWI Casualty Trio
£425.00-1914-15 Star Trio CH17680 Pte. A. Millar R.M.L.I
-WW1 Death Plaque and original box named Andrew Millar
Drowned 25th January 1917 after HMS Laurentic was sunk by 2 German mines. Commemorated on the Chatham memorial. Born 14th April 1885, the son of Mrs Anne Hogarth of 29 Highbuckolmside, Galashiels.
S.S. Laurentic was a British transatlantic ocean liner, she was ordered by Dominion line but operated as a White Star liner between 1909-1914 and then with the Royal Navy 1914-1917. She served briefly as a troop ship and then as an armed merchant cruiser seeing service off West Africa, Singapore, the Bay of Bengal and the Far East. On the 23rd January 1917 she left Birkenhead. She was secretly carrying 3911 gold bars which the British government intended to buy munitions from Canada and the USA along with a crew of Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Marine Light Infantry. On the morning of the 25th January she called at Buncrana to disembark 4 ratings with symptoms of Yellow Fever. At 1700 hours she departed in a bitterly cold blizzard, there are reports that a U-boat had been sighted near the mouth of the river and she was due to rendezvous with a Destroyer escort of Fanad Head but her commander chose to proceed without it. At 1755 hours just north of the Logh she struck a mine that had been laid by SM U-80 which exploded abreast of her foremast, 20 seconds later a second mine exploded near her engine room disabling her and her pumps. The crew were unable to transmit a wireless distress message but fired distress rockets. Both explosions were on her port side and she listed by 20degrees making it hard to launch her lifeboats. Despite the difficult conditions the crew was able to launch some lifeboats and tried to row ashore guided by Fanad Head lighthouse. The temperature dropped as low as -13 celsius and many men in the lifeboats died of hypothermia before reaching the shore. Local fishing boats rescued the exhausted and very cold survivors. In total 354 men were killed and 121 survived. Many of the dead have no known grave but the sea including Andrew Millar. They are commemorated on the Royal Naval monuments at Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Attempts were made to recover the gold bars. The shipment of gold bullion for the war effort was naturally shrouded in secrecy and this would have been a significant loss which was fortunately the end of the war.
Condition as shown in photographs
Mons Star Trio & Plaque Devonshire Regiment
£395.00-1914 Star Clasp 5th August-22nd November 1914 named 7578 Pte. A. Little 1/Devon R.
-War Medal 7578 Pte. A. Little Devon R.
-Victory Medal 7578 Pte. A. Little Devon R.
-Death Plaque Alfred Little with original card envelope
Alfred was born in Exeter in 1888 and entered France 22nd August 1914. Killed in action 12th September 1916 and commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Condition as shown in photographs
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
Royal Marine Artillery WWI War Medal
£35.00Royal 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
WWI Casualty Trio
£115.00|
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
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WWI Devonshire Regiment Pair
£48.00-WWI War Medal
-WWI Victory Medal
59408 Pte. G. Nicholson Devonshire Regt.
Condition as shown in photographs
WWI Devonshire Regiment Pair
£48.00WWI War Medal
WWI Victory Medal
58565 Pte. A. W. R. Randall Devon Regt.
Condition as shown in photographs
WWI Long Service Group Royal Marine Light Infantry Landed at Ostend 1914/ Service at Jutland
£365.00-1914 Star August-November Clasp named PO. 8187 Pte. F.J.King RM Brigade
-War Medal named RMLI named PO. 8187 Pte. F.J.King
-Victory Medal RMLI named PO. 8187 Pte. F.J.King
-Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & Good Conduct Medal George V named PO. 8187 A.1296 F.J.King M.N.E. R.F.R.
Mounted for wear, Victory Medal detached from bar
He landed at Ostend in 1914 and later saw service at Jutland.
Frederick John King was born at Stonehouse, Devon on 17 November 1881 and enlisted with the Royal Marines on 14 May 1896. He was initially underage and served as a Bugler from 12 June 1896-14 March 1901. He continued to serve seeing a number of postings including Hong Kong, Gibraltar and Malta, before joining the Portsmouth Division where he was serving on the outbreak of the Great War.
King was part of the Ostend landing intended to deny the Germans the use of submarine basis on the Belgian Coast. He remained there until 1 September when he was withdrawn, slightly prior to the main withdrawal of the force which occurred at the end of the month.
Posted to the light cruiser Inconstant he was present with her at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. There she formed part of the 1st Light Cruise Squadron, twice engaging enemy cruisers during the Battle and witnessing the doomed run of Black Prince and Defence. Remaining with her after the Battle King was posted ashore in 1918 and received his 1914 Star at Gosport in 1919, he was pensioned the following year, sold together with copied paperwork.
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