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Five: Stoker Petty Officer Thomas Stevens, Royal Navy
1914-15STAR (147192 S.P.O., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (147192 S.P.O., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R.
(Thomas Stevens, Lg. Sto. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Montagu); RUSSIA, MEDAL FOR ZEAL, Nicholas II, silver breast medal (147192 T.
Stevens, Sto. P.O., H.M.S. Jupiter) on modern St. Stanislaus ribbon, extremely fine (5) £500-600
Thomas Stevens was born on 12 August 1869 at Kingsbridge, Devon. Previously employed as a Dockyard Labourer, he entered the
Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on the Indus on 19 May 1888, being advanced to Stoker in January 1890 while on the Himalaya. He
was promoted to Leading Stoker 2nd Class when on the Royal Sovereign in April 1899; thence to Leading Stoker 1st Class when based
on Vivid II a year later, and he attained the rank of Stoker Petty Officer when based on Vivid I in July 1906. As a Leading Stoker he was
awarded the long service medal in January 1904. Stevens was pensioned ashore in December 1910 and in May 1911 joined the Royal
Fleet Reserve. Recalled for service in the Great War, he served on the old battleship Jupiter, August 1914-May 1915. It was during the
period February-May 1915 that the ship was used as an icebreaker in the White Sea. For their services in keeping the vital seaway
open, the officers and crew of the Jupiter were awarded a variety of orders and medals by the grateful Tsar. Stevens continued to serve
throughout the war and was demobilised on 11 August 1919. With copied service papers.
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Five: Chief Electrical Artificer 1st Class A. T. Cuthbert, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (345060 C.E.R.A.2 (sic), R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (345060 C.E.A.1, R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.
C., G.V.R., 1st issue (345060 C.E.A. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Undaunted); FRANCE, CROIX DE GUERRE 1914-1917, bronze palm on
ribbon, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £140-180
Croix de Guerre London Gazette 1 April 1919.
Alexander Thomson Cuthbert was born in Dundee on 29 September 1878. An Iron Turner by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as
an Assistant Electrician 4th Class on 14 March 1902. He was advanced to Electrician 4th Class when on Jupiter in June 1903; to
Electrician 3rd Class when on Bacchante in March 1905; to Electrician 2nd Class in March 1909 when on Cochrane; Chief Electrical
Artificer 2nd Class in April 1912 when on Africa and Chief Electrical Artificer 1st Class in April 1917 when on Undaunted. Cuthbert
served on the light cruiser Undaunted, April 1914-February 1918. The ship was successively 3rd Destroyer Flotilla leader, 1914-15,
9th Destroyer Flotilla, 1915-17, and 10th Destroyer leader, 1917-18, all based at Harwich. Undaunted had a busy war -
on 17 October she led four destroyers of her flotilla against a force of four German destroyers off the Dutch coast. The four German
destroyers were all sunk during the engagement. On 25 December 1914 she was part of a force of three cruisers, three seaplane
carriers, nine seaplanes and associated destroyers and submarines that attacked the Cuxhaven Zeppelin base. On 24 January 1915 she
was present at the battle of Dogger Bank, but did not get involved in the main fighting. She then moved to the Irish Sea, with her
destroyers, to undertake anti-submarine duties. On 9-12 February they escorted the Canadian division from Britain to France. On April
1915 she was badly damaged in a collision with the destroyer Landrail, the first of two collisions in her career. In August 1915 she took
part in the hunt for the German minelayer Meteor, which ended with the scuttling of the German ship. The Undaunted was part of the
force that covered the raid on Tondern, on 24 March 1916. During the return trip the flagship, Cleopatra, turned sharply to ram a
German destroyer, and cut across the bows of the Undaunted causing her to be badly damaged. After his service on the Undaunted,
Cuthbert served on the Coventery and Yarmouth, before being pensioned ashore on 13 March 1924. For his wartime services he was
awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Sold with copied service paper and gazette extract.
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Four: Lance-Corporal J. G. Fotheringham, Royal Highlanders
1914-15 STAR (S-7265 Pte., R. Highrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (S-7265 Pte., R. Highrs.); ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE
MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-7265 Pte.-L. Cpl., 8/R. Highrs.), good very fine £140-180
John C. Fotheringham was awarded his M.S.M. in the London Gazette of 18 January 1919 and, according to an accompanying wartime
newspaper cutting was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fotheringham of West Cambus - ‘Prior to enlisting in 1914 he was a clerk in the office
of Messrs. Ewing and Cuthbert, Alloa.’
The 8th Battalion, Black Watch arrived in France in the summer of 1915, and quickly saw action in the Battle of Loos that September.
So, too, on the Somme, when it carried out a successful attack on Longueaval on 14 July 1916, probing as far as Delville Wood - but at
a cost of 568 officers and men killed or wounded.
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Four: Acting Sergeant D. Milne, Gordon Highlanders
1914-15STAR (267 L.-Cpl., Gord. Highrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (267 A. Sjt., Gordons); TERRITORIAL FORCE EFFICIENCY
MEDAL, G.V.R. (267 Pte., 7/Gordon Hdrs.), edge nicks, very fine or better (4) £120-150
The 1/7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, arrived on the Somme in November 1916, and suffered a total of 320
casualties in an attack on Beaumont-Hamel on the 13th.
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Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class James MacDonald, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (269299 C.E.R.A. 1, R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (269299 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); ROYAL
NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269299 James MacDonald, C.E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Vernon) good very fine (4)
£80-100
M.I.D. London Gazette
James MacDonald was born in Elgin on 10 August 1875. A Turner by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as an Engine Room
Artificer 4th Class on 23 February 1898. He was advanced to E.R.A. 3rd Class in February 1901 when at Vernon; E.R.A. 2nd Class in
February 1905 when on Firequeen, Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class in April 1909 when on Hecla, and C.E.R.A. 1st Class in April
1910 when at Vernon. He served during June 1914-April 1917 based at Cormorant (Gibraltar) and for the remainder of the war was
mainly on the destroyer Nymphe. He was demobilised on 20 April 1920. With copied service papers.
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