A Collection of Great War Medals to Yeomanry Regiments
Oxfordshire Yeomanry
498
1914 STAR (1789 Pte. W. Cross, Oxf. Yeo.) nearly extremely fine £60-80
Wilfred Cross enlisted on 28 January 1913. Serving with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on
20 September 1914. He was discharged on 11 September 1916. Members of an Oxford Yeomanry patrol are believed to have been the
first Territorial Force soldiers to engage the Germans in 1914. With copied m.i.c.
Sherwood Rangers
499
Six: Captain Herbert Edward Long, Royal Army Service Corps, late Sherwood Rangers
1914-15STAR (2005 Pte., Sher. Rang.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut.); DEFENCE MEDAL;JUBILEE 1935;CORONATION 1937,
these three unnamed, mounted as worn with space for O.B.E., good very fine (6) £160-200
O.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938. ‘Captain Herbert Edward Long, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Somaliland
Protectorate’.
Private Herbert Edward Long, Sherwood Rangers, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 27 April 1915. He was commissioned a 2nd
Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 28 April 1917 and was advanced to Lieutenant on 28 April 1918. Post-war, Long entered the
Colonial Service. He was appointed Vice-Consul at Jijiga, Abyssinia, in November 1927; Acting Consul at Harar in 1929 and Consul at
Jijiga in October 1930. He was then in charge of the Consulate at Harar, November 1931-May 1932 and again during December 1932-
September 1934. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Civil) in the Birthday Honours of 1938 as District Officer in the Somaliland Protectorate.
During the Second World War he served in the 24th Middlesex Battalion of the Home Guard. With some copied service details.
South Notts Hussars
500
1914-15 STAR (1065 Pte. G. Horton, S. Notts. Hrs.) scratches on reverse, very fine £35-55
Private Gilbert Horton, South Notts Hussars, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 26 April 1915. As a Company Quartermaster Sergeant
in the Machine Gun Corps, he was disembodied on 20 June 1917.
Staffordshire Yeomanry
501
1914-15 STAR (2678 L-Cpl. H. Dagleish, Staff. Yeo.) good very fine £40-60
Suffolk Yeomanry
502
1914-15 STAR (1593 Pte. (A. Sjt) A. H. Goddard, Suff. Yeo.) extremely fine £40-60
Acting Serjeant Albert H. Goddard, Suffolk Yeomanry, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 8 October 1915. He was commissioned a
2nd Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment in April 1917 and was later with the Rifle Brigade.
Surrey Yeomanry
503
Eight: Major J. M. Pye-Smith, Royal Air Force, late Royal West Surrey Regiment and Surrey Yeomanry
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Imp. Yeo,); BRITISH
WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt., R.A.F.); TERRITORIAL FORCE WAR MEDAL 1914-19 (Major, Surr. Yeo.) gilded;
1939-45 STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, unnamed; TERRITORIAL DECORATION, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1920,
lacking top bar, mounted as worn, good very fine, rare T.F.W.M. (8) £500-600
M.I.D. London Gazette 21 December 1918. ‘Capt. (Surr. Yeo. (T.F.)) 23rd Sqdn. R.A.F.’
J. M. Pye-Smith was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment on 23 May 1900 and
was advanced to Lieutenant on 5 June 1901. He was transferred to the 25th Company 7th Battalion (West Somerset) Imperial Yeomanry
in July 1901. With these units he served in the Boer War, in Transvaal, May 1901-May 1902 and in Cape Colony, May 1902, for which
service he was awarded the Queen’s Medal with three clasps. He was appointed a Captain in the Surrey Yeomanry on 2 December
1902. As such he was one of the original officers of the 2/1st Battalion Surrey Yeomanry when it was raised in August/September 1914.
He attained the rank of Major on 23 February 1915. The 2/1 Surrey Yeomanry was based in England and Ireland throughout the war
but Pye-Smith served in France/Flanders, 11 November 1916-11 November 1918. Transferred to the Air Force, he was appointed a
Captain in the R.A.F. (Administration) on 1 April 1918, and for his service with that branch of the armed forces, was mentioned in
despatches. Post-war, he was awarded the Territorial Decoration (London Gazette 30 June 1921) when he was listed as a Major (Hon.
Lieut. in the Army) attached Surrey Yeomanry. With the onset of the Second World War, he was ranked as a Flight Lieutenant in the
Administrative and Special Duties Branch.
A note with the lot states that the Surrey Yeomanry received only one Territorial Force War Medal to an officer (Pye-Smith) and four to
other ranks.
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